Product Description

Based on a true story, Endurance is a gruesome and live demonstration of survival of the fittest, centred around a car yard in an everyday suburb (Lower Hutt), where a struggling car dealership stages
an endurance competition in which a "brand new Ford Explorer"
will be given to whoever can keep their hand on the vehicle the
longest. Drawn into this Darwinian contest are people from every
walk of life, who for one reason or another - avarice, poverty, anger,
revenge, despair, loyalty, love - see their salvation in winning the car.
Endurance pits all these motivations against each other, and in an
unintended and gruelling social experiment, reveals which of these is
the most enduring.
At the same time, the contest serves as a metaphor for all the ways in
which the characters, in their private lives, are enduring some kind of
personal ordeal, whether it be disability, an unfulfilling job, old age, a
loveless marriage, widowhood, loneliness, poverty, or any number of
other workaday struggles.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3769426 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

The International Herald Tribune
`One of New Zealand's most exciting literary exports'

From the Publisher
Film adaptation of `Endurance' to be premiered at Cannes in
2007

About the Author
Anthony McCarten's debut novel, Spinners (1998), won
international acclaim, and has since been translated into four languages;
it was followed by The English Harem and Death of a Superhero, both
published by Alma in 2006. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays,
including the worldwide success Ladies' Night, which won France's Molière
Prize, the Meilleure Pièce Comique, in 2001.