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In the following review, Brookner praises Enduring Love for its effective use of “psychological terrorism,” McEwan's patient building of conflict and suspense, and the book'...
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In the following review of Enduring Love, Craig criticizes the novel's schematic opposition of science and religion.
Is love the subject or object? Is it love that endures or love that must be ...
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In the following review, Johnson extols the descriptive opening portions of Enduring Love, praising McEwan's ability to delineate events with precision.
As a storyteller, British author Ian McE...
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In the following review, Eder finds major flaws in the uneven narrative energy and invented case study in Enduring Love.
It begins [in Enduring Love] with dazzling cinematic bravura. Joe and Clarissa,...
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In the following review, Taylor offers an unfavorable assessment of Enduring Love, asserting that McEwan's style and structure in the novel is overbearing and repetitive.
“The pathologic...
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In the following review, Dinnage argues that Enduring Love is an efficient, gripping examination of such themes as “guilt and love and fear.”
After six previous novels and two books of s...
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In the following review, Sayers offers a positive assessment of Enduring Love, but notes that the novel's philosophical ideas and thematic tensions ultimately give way to the demands of narrati...
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In the following review of Enduring Love, Bien commends McEwan's literary skill, but finds the novel weakened by its dependence on plot for its impetus.
One does not appreciate how cynical Ian ...
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One critic may believe that the essential clash in the novel is between the scientific and religious approach to life. This is easily said considering the lifestyles of the main two characters, ...
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Chapter twenty-four offers the readers quite a conventional fairy-tale ending, providing a rather satisfactory conclusion. It ends on an up-lifting note, with the children symbolising hope in the futu...
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Critical Review by Anita Brookner
Is the Essential Clash in the Novel between a Scientific or Spiritual Approach to Life?
