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On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach

by IanMcEwan (Author)

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    Hardcover 2007

    $3.40

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    Paperback 2008

    $16.53

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come..."On Chesil Beach" is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 176
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 05 Apr 2007
ISBN 10: 0224081187
ISBN 13: 9780224081184
Book Overview: A short novel of quite remarkable depth, power and poignancy by a writer at the height of his powers
 Prizes: Winner of British Book Awards: Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2008 and British Book Awards: Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2008. Shortlisted for Irish Book Awards: RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008 and Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007.

Author Bio
Ian McEwan is the author of two collections of stories and ten previous novels, including Enduring Love, Amsterdam, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, Atonement and Saturday.