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Title	:	On Chesil Beach
Author	:	Ian McEwan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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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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)

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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.

Ian Mc Ewan is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. This is a short, simple story about a newly married couple called Florence and Edward and how " You can ruin everything by not speaking up" I listened to this book which was narrated by Ian McEwan and what a wonderful experience that was. This is one of those books that is full of hidden depth. On the surface the story may seem quite straight forward and yet there is so much depth to the characters and situations than first appears.

È strano questo libro: statico, ma soprattutto pensato. Pensano troppo i due protagonisti. Pensano ma non parlano, o parlano del tempo. Ma non parlano del tempo che passa tra loro, dei loro sogni e del loro amore, dei loro desideri e delle loro paure; e così il tempo passa, li segna e li attraversa. E li divide, lasciando nel lettore l'amaro in bocca e un senso d'impotenza, e la certezza che forse sarebbe bastato solo un gesto per non perdere tutto.L'aver visto il film, oggi pomeriggio, mi ha

(The much longer full review can be found at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com].)Regular readers know that this month CCLaP is taking an extended look at the nominees for the 2007 Booker Prize; and regular readers also know that so far I've been mostly disappointed by the nominees I've read, finding most of them to be inconsequential little wisps of stories, many of them well-written but certainly not weighty enough to be called "The Best Novel of 2007." And thus

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. This little novel is so deceptive. It's under 200 pages, and the story seems simple: the 1962 wedding night of Edward and Florence, two young, virginal people in love. Edward is ready to burst with the desire to consummate their marriage; Florence is dreading it.But it isn't so simple. The night is a disaster, and wrought with the secret scars and fatal flaws the two people carry around. The writing is so revealing of the

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

This deceptively light novella describes the events of Florence and Edwards disastrous honeymoon night in 1962, interspersed with details of their childhoods and courtship to suggest how those influenced what happened. (Update re film at the bottom...) It is clinical and understated from the start: The wedding... had gone well and the weather... not perfect but entirely adequate and continues in the bedroom with detailed descriptions of physical sensations of skin, muscle, and even individual