Enduring love book review5/30/2023 ![]() And yet the sensational elements, and the strikingly effective writing that makes the shocking episodes memorable, should not obscure the fact that this was a new, more mature phase in McEwan’s career. They’re often remembered, respectively, for a snatched child, a dismembered body, a pair of terrifying canines, and a horrific ballooning accident. McEwan’s next four novels, The Child in Time (1987), The Innocent (1990), Black Dogs (1992), and Enduring Love(1997), are more ambitious than the earlier books, more thoughtful-and equally vivid. The tags that attach themselves to writers can prove annoyingly sticky. These books earned him a nickname in the British press-Ian McAbre. And in fact, his earliest work-two collections of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets (1978), and two slim novels, The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981)-contain many painfully vivid, highly disturbing scenes, quite a few involving children. ![]() ![]() Ian McEwan’s early success came hand in hand with a lurid reputation: his books were said to be twisted and dark. Interviewed by Adam Begley Issue 162, Summer 2002 ![]()
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