Product Description

Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of Ian McEwan's haunting novel providing a guide to the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21317 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From the Back Cover

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world.

This guide to McEwan's haunting novel offers:

• an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Love
• a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present
• a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on Enduring Love, by Kiernan Ryan, Sean Matthews, Martin Randall, Paul Edwards, Rhiannon Davies and Peter Childs, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section
• cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
• suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Enduring Love and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds McEwan's text.

Customer Reviews

A great book
I love all of Ian McEwan's books and this one has the best opening chapter of almost any book I've read.