He prepares a picnic while thinking about the present he got her and he goes to the airport. Joe and Clarissa have been apart for six weeks and he is excited to see her. Clarissa has been on sabbatical looking for the Romantic poet John Keats’ lost love letters. Joe then reflects back on the actions that have led up to this moment. They are James Gadd (the pilot and grandfather) and Harry Gadd (his grandson). The men are running towards a boy stuck in a hot air balloon and a pilot with his leg stuck in the rope, trying to stop the balloon.
Joe reflects upon their actions with a buzzard’s point of view, trying to understand their seemingly coincidental collision with fate while hinting at his imminent and destructive relationship with Parry.
Four other men are also running from different directions: John Logan, an athletically fit 42-year-old doctor with a wife and two children, Joseph Lacey and Toby Greene, two middle-aged farm hands, and Jed Parry, an unemployed 28-year-old living on an inheritance. Unthinkingly, Joe rises up and dashes across the meadow to save whomever needs help. She is handing him a bottle of wine-a 1987 Daumas Gassac-when they hear a shout of panic. He and his girlfriend of seven years, Clarissa Mellon, are on a picnic. Enduring Love begins with the protagonist, Joe Rose, describing the beginning of the story he is about to tell.
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