On Chesil Beach
¥1,000.00 JPY • Used
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one o...
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A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed wr iters 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 e arnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpecte dly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edwa rd and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their r ooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to com e. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence's response to his advance s and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence's anxieties run deep er: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but d reads 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.
Product Info
ISBN: 0385522401
ISBN-13: 9780385522403
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Year: 2007
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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Country: Japan
