On Chesil Beach
Author(s): Ian McEwan
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.
Product Information
A short novel of quite remarkable depth, power and poignancy by a writer at the height of his powers
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 Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007 and RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008.
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.17
- : 01 February 2008
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ian McEwan
- : Ian McEwan
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823/.914
- : good
- : 176
