On Chesil Beach

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Author: McEwan, Ian Brand: Anchor Books Color: Blue Edition: Reprint Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 203 Release Date: 10-06-2008 Part Number: 9780307386175 Details: NATIONAL B ESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple’s wedding night.“No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan's accomplishment." —The Washington Post Book WorldIt is 1962, and Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties become overwhelming. Unbeknownst to them both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates in On Chesil Beach a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons. EAN: 9780307386175 Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches Languages: English Show more