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On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
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Description for On Chesil Beach
Paperback. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
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It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
'McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us' Guardian
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099512790
SKU
V9780099512790
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-97
About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On ... Read more
Reviews for On Chesil Beach
Wonderful...exquisite...devastating
Independent on Sunday
Exquisitely crafted
Evening Standard
Superb... The protagonists have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life my McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force
Financial Times
On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece
Times Literary ... Read more
Independent on Sunday
Exquisitely crafted
Evening Standard
Superb... The protagonists have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life my McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force
Financial Times
On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece
Times Literary ... Read more