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Original Title:	On Chesil Beach
ISBN:	0224081187 (ISBN13: 9780224081184)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Edward Mayhew, Florence Ponting
Setting:	Chesil Beach, Dorset, England,1962(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2007), British Book Award (2008), Prix Littéraire Européen - Madeleine Zepter (2008), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2009)

On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

Hardcover | Pages: 166 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 69031 Users | 6824 Reviews

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A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence’s response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence’s anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite. Ian McEwan has caught with understanding and compassion the innocence of Edward and Florence at a time when marriage was presumed to be the outward sign of maturity and independence. On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from McEwan—a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

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Title	:	On Chesil Beach
Author	:	Ian McEwan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 166 pages
Published	:	March 23rd 2007 by Jonathan Cape
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. European Literature. British Literature

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I have a First Edition of this small hardcopy book. I read it in 2007. There are other passionate 5 star reviews.. but I was incredibly disappointed. I felt it could have been a short story -I was angry that I paid full price for it. However ..I may re- read this book soon ( it only takes a few hours) with an open mind to see if my thoughts have changed. Im guessing people today didnt pay $30 for this as I had. Funny how the price bothered me so much.. and it did at the time.

I hadn't intended on reading any Ian McEwan in the near future, and this wasn't even atop my McEwan "to-read" list. However, as it is short-listed for the Booker, and since I have a tendency to hardly ever keep up with contemporary literature, I was inspired to pick this up at the library yesterday. Then, I proceeded to read it in one sitting.Of course, this rapid reading was very much aided by the length of the book, but this is ultimately an inconsequential reason for my fixation. As with

Life is just like this story: A thread of misunderstandings, secrets, broken dreams and false expectations.Life is also much like McEwan's writing itself: Precise, wise, masterful and merciless. Here, On Chesil Beach I found the whole human experience condensed into 166 pages.Mr McEwan, after this novel, Sir, I believe you have nothing else left to prove to the literary world.Nothing can be as powerful as the right word spoken at the right time.In life, we're all On Chesil Beach

Most people have already heard of Ian McEwan's presumable masterpiece Atonement, but many of his other novels have remained underrated ever since. On Chesil Beach is a simple love story about two opposing souls - but it is no love story in a typical way. In this short book, Ian McEwan reverses the love story and tells it backwards from their wedding night, allowing those events described to find a climax which might take them into a future with each other or separate them forever.In the

The first thing you should know about this book is that, like the other Ian McEwan books Ive read, it is about the most uncomfortable, awkward, and squirmy thing youll ever read. Dont believe me? What if I told you that the book which is 200 pages long only covers about two hours of time: the first two hours of a newlywed couples honeymoon in which they fumble to consummate their marriage? And that both of them have very embarrassing sexual dysfunctions? Well, thats what the book is about. The

AlmostA brilliant book, but such a sad one; it would be unfair not to say so up front. Ian McEwan is a master at dissecting emotions. Every page of this wonderfully-crafted novel gave me the uncanny feeling of living within the skins of the two main characters, Edward and Florence, just married as the book opens. When they fall in love, nurture ambitions, experience happiness, I feel these things too. But when happiness eludes them, the pain is unbearable, not least because the author never

This is the third novel by McEwan that I read. I watched the movie adaptation before I began reading the book. The movie was beautiful, the cinematography and the acting were superb. Of course, I was curious to compare how well the book was translated to the screen and what was left out of the book.I can't believe I'm saying this, but the movie was better than the book, as it had a bit more "meat". You'd think that because I had the movie visuals in my head, the book would have come to life even