Based on a true story, "Endurance" is a gruesome and living demonstration of survival of the fittest, centred around a car yard in an everyday suburb (Lower Hutt), where a struggling car dealership stages an endurance competition in which a "brand new Ford Explorer" will be given to whomever can keep their hand on the vehicle the longest. Drawn into this Darwinian contest are people from every walk of life, who for one reason or another - avarice, poverty, anger, revenge, despair, loyalty, love - see their salvation in winning the car. "Endurance" pits all these motivations against each other, and in an unintended and gruelling social experiment, reveals which of these is the most enduring. At the same time, the contest serves as a metaphor for all the ways in which the characters, in their private lives, are enduring some kind of personal ordeal, whether it be disability, a unfulfilling job, old age, a loveless marriage, widowhood, loneliness, poverty, or any number of other workaday struggles.
- ISBN10 1846880270
- ISBN13 9781846880278
- Publish Date 28 September 2007
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 4 July 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Alma Books Ltd
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 300
- Language English