On Chesil Beach
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It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come...
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It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come...
Title: On Chesil Beach
Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9780099512790
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 2008-01-03
Number of Pages: 176
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Wonderful...exquisite...devastating * Independent on Sunday *
Exquisitely crafted * Evening Standard *
Superb... The protagonists have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life my McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force * Financial Times *
On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece -- Karl Miller * Times Literary Supplement *
This is McEwan's mature style, one we have come to recognise from Atonement and Saturday. It is a polished, civilised style, and very distant from the shock tactics of his early work... McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us; and their seriousness, their idealism, and their desire for love draw us towards them -- Natasha Walter * Guardian *
To commend an author for being reminiscent of Edith Wharton is a compliment that this reviewer reserves for a select few. Yet with On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan has earnt it -- Lionel Shriver * Telegraph *
A master feat of concentration in both senses of the word -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times *
Written with a fierce pursuit of the truth and an utterly modern self-awareness, what a confidant tour de force this turns out to be * Sunday Express *
One of our greatest living writers. Many Easter weekends and train journeys will be enlivened by a compelling novella -- Christopher Dolan * Herald *
It is a masterpiece. The very idea that informs it, fascinating and unfamiliar, is masterly -- Karl Miller * TLS *
A didactic, ironic novella of great accomplishment and calculated ambition. Structurally and linguistically, it is a triumph...intriguingly compassionate -- Tom Chatfield * Prospect *
It is a measure of McEwan's artistry that he is able here both to linger in the recording of sensuous particularities and at the same time to deliver the satisfactions of plot we are accustomed to deriving from his fiction * Time Out, Book of the Week *
McEwan shares with his fellow English novelist Jim Crace not only an interest in history but in finding a style in prose that is slow-moving, yet compelling, at times stilted and dry, and then suddenly sharp and precise -- Colm Toibin * London Review of Books *
The protagonists of On Chesil Beach have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life by McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force * Scotsman *
The book is steeped in lost hopes and disappointments, with each sentence as powerful as a Larkin poem. I didn't know a British novelist could still be this good * Express *
McEwan is word-perfect at handling the awkward comedy of this relationship and, as ever, turning it into something far more disturbing * Observer *
Two characters so vibrant they step straight off the page -- Yvonne Cassidy * The Tablet *
McEwan's brilliance as a novelist lies in his ability to isolate discrete moments in life and invest them with incredible significance -- Tim Adams * Observer *
McEwan's style is lean and clear...every sentence feels carefully crafted, the words all perfectly in place -- John Harding * Daily Mail *
A tightly focused human drama... McEwan gives the reader access to both characters' thoughts with his usual skill, and the comedy of embarrassment, or of the kind of erotic misunderstanding that Milan Kundera used to specialise in, quickly disappears as the marital bed begins to seem more and more ominous... The bedroom scene itself is carried off brilliantly -- Christopher Taylor * Sunday Telegraph *
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