Author

Publication

1979 - distributed by Random House, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

104,500 words, Guess

Page Count

418 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveendlesslove00spenrich
  • ISBN-100394506057
  • ISBN-139780394506050
  • Goodreads2172208
  • LibraryThing71746
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.5/4
  • LCCPZ4.S7465 En 1979
  • LCCPS3569.P455 En 1979
and 2 more
  • LCCPS3569.P455; En 1979
  • LCCPS3569.P455 .E63 1979

Description

"One of the most celebrated novels of its time, Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful book ever written about young love. Riveting, compulsively readable, and ferociously sexual, Endless Love tells the story of David Axelrod and his overwhelming love for Jade Butterfield. David and Jade are consumed with each other: their rapport, their desire, their sexuality, take them further than they understand. And when Jade's father banishes David from the home, he fantasizes the forgiveness his rescue of the family will bring, and he sets a "perfectly safe" fire to their house. What unfolds is a nightmare, a dark world in which David's love is a crime and a disease, a world of anonymous phone calls, crazy letters, and new fears -- and the inevitable and punishing pursuit of the one thing that remains most real to him: his endless love for Jade and her family. ... haiied as "one of the best books of the year" by the New York Times."--Amazon.com

First Sentence

When I was seventeen and in full obedience to my heart's most urgent commands, I stepped far from the pathway of normal life and in a moment's time ruined everything I loved-I loved so deeply, and when the love was interrupted, when the incorporeal body of love shrank back in terror and my own body was locked away, it was hard for others to believe that a life so new could suffer so irrevocably.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Endless lovedistributed by Random House1979-01-01

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