ABSTRACT
Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, the son of a professional soldier, and spent part of his childhood abroad—in Africa and the Far East—before reading English at the University of Sussex. McEwan's first two, much-acclaimed, books were collections of short stories. In "First Loves, Last Rites" and "In Between the Sheets" he created a reputation for glacially cool prose directed at macabre and bizarre subject matter. In "The Child in Time" McEwan moved his fiction into a different alignment with the real world and real human emotions. One of McEwan's persistent themes is the intrusion of brutal, inescapable reality into comfortable lives that the black dogs represent. Enduring Love is one of McEwan's finest novels, a brilliantly gripping account of one man's attempt to retain narrative control of his life as it seems to be slipping into chaos and contingency.
