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"Brilliant.... [A] meditation on ... the intoxications and the redemptive power of love." --The New Yorker
Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encouner forty years earlier--a moment that, for June, was as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy's own time.
In a finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civiliation's darkest moods--its black dogs--with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.
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@ODonnellmj1 No. Lolita by nabakov, Valis by Phillip k dick, Kafka on the shore by Murakami, no longer human by osamu desai, Chekhov fifty two short stories, Outer dark by Cormac McCarthy, Angels by Denis Johnson, black dogs by Ian mcewan
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@katejhewson ER! That brings back memories For me it was when Lucy died in ER and Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs Sounds like you are working on something great
Husband. Father. Writer. Teacher. BEING DEAD (Fall 2023). Rep'd by Betty Anne Crawford.
McEwan is never mentioned, here. I think I know why. But a book like Enduring Love? Just the title alone - but it's a breathtaking novel. On Chesil Beach and Black Dogs. Well. And Sweet Tooth is pomo wizardry. So fun. I also LOVE Atonement. And The Cement Garden. Hmmmm
"Brilliant.... [A] meditation on ... the intoxications and the redemptive power of love." --The New Yorker
"Subtle and unforgettable." --Voice Literary Supplement
"The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities ... we are conquered by the humanity, the urgency, of the novel's characters." --The New York Times Book Review
"Each scene is brilliantly lit, and has a characteristically strange fascination as Ian McEwan juxtaposes 'huge and tiny currents' to show the ways in which individuals react to history." --The New York Review of Books