Enduring Love - Hardcover

McEwan, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385491123 ISBN 13: 9780385491129

Verlag: Doubleday, 1998

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Joe and Clarissa Rose's spring idyll in the park is cut short when Joe helps rescue a child from a balloon accident, one man is killed, and Joe becomes the target of suspicion and ultimately an assassination attempt. First serial, The New Yorker. Tour.

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er Joe Rose is spending a day in the country with his long-time lover, Clarissa, when he witnesses a tragic accident--a balloon with a boy trapped in it is being tossed by the wind, and, in an attempt to save the child, a man is killed. As though that isn't disturbing enough, a man named Jed Parry, who has joined Rose in helping to bring the balloon to safety, believes that something has passed between him and Rose--something that sparks in Parry a deranged, obsessive kind of love.
Soon Parry is stalking Rose, who turns to science to try to understand the situation. Parry apparently suffers from a condition known to psychiatrists as de Clerambault Syndrome, in which the afflicted individual obsessively pursues the object of his desire until the frustrated love turns to hate and rage--transforming one of life's most valued experiences into pathological horror. As Rose grows more paranoid and terrified, as his treasured relationship with Clarissa breaks under the tension of hi

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385491123
• ISBN 13: 9780385491129
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262