An edition of On Chesil Beach (2007)

On Chesil Beach

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An edition of On Chesil Beach (2007)

On Chesil Beach

  • 3.9 (11 ratings) ·
  • 32 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 17 Have read

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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Gallimard
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French

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Cover of: Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach
2009, Einaudi
in Italian
Cover of: Česilo pakrantėje
Česilo pakrantėje
2009, Jotema
in Lithuanian
Cover of: On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach
2008-05, Gallimard
in French
Cover of: On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach
2008, Vintage Canada
in English
Cover of: On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach
2008, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
E-book in English
Cover of: On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach
2008, Windsor | Paragon
in English
Cover of: On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach
2007, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: Na Praia de Chesil
Na Praia de Chesil
2007-04, Gradiva
in Portuguese
Cover of: Pa  Chesil Beach
Pa Chesil Beach
2007, Ordfront
in Swedish
Cover of: Na praia
Na praia
2007, Companhia das Letras
in Portuguese

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OL31851465M
Internet Archive
surlaplagedeches0000mcew
ISBN 13
9782070785469
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