The book tells of a man, Joe, who becomes sucked into a destructive path after he witnesses a bizarre hot air balloon accident. Why I liked the novel was because of many factors within the read. The relatability of McEwan’s novel makes it a good read. His most recent novel is The Children Act. Ian McEwan’s novel Enduring Love showcases many real aspects to life. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, and in 2011 was awarded the Jerusalem Prize. McEwan has been named the Reader's Digest Author of the Year for 2008, the 2010 Peggy V. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday, and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. He received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. Ian McEwan was born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, England.
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