A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers 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 earnest young history student at …
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A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers 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 earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence's response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence's anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but dreads 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.
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On Chesil Beach
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English language
Published Sept. 10, 2008 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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- 978-0-307-45582-6Copied ISBN!
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- 244528674
On Chesil Beach (Random House Large Print
Hardcover, 283 pages
English language
Published June 5, 2007 by Random House Large Print.
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- 978-0-7393-2726-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 85855148
On Chesil Beach
Hardcover, 166 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2007 by A.A. Knopf Canada.
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- 978-0-676-97881-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 79256076
On Chesil Beach
Paperback, 176 pages
English language
Published April 8, 2008 by Vintage Canada.
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- 978-0-676-97882-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 141842912
On Chesil Beach
203 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2007 by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-385-52240-3Copied ISBN!
On Chesil Beach
Paperback, 224 pages
English language
Published June 10, 2008 by Anchor.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-307-38617-5Copied ISBN!
Pa Chesil Beach
180 pages
Swedish language
Published Sept. 10, 2007 by Ordfront.
- ISBN:
- 978-91-7037-326-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 185218934
On Chesil Beach
E-book
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2008 by Random House Group Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4070-1313-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 665984916
On Chesil Beach
176 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2018 by Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78470-556-5Copied ISBN!
Chʻesil Bichʻi esŏ
198 pages
Korean language
Published Sept. 10, 2008 by Munhak Tongne.
- ISBN:
- 978-89-546-0522-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 233653179
On Chesil Beach
176 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2008 by Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-951279-0Copied ISBN!
Chesil Beach
136 pages
Italian language
Published Sept. 10, 2009 by Einaudi.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-06-19768-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 776641402
On Chesil Beach
Audio cassette
English language
Published June 10, 2007 by Books on Tape.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4159-3879-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 85853630
Na praia
128 pages
Portuguese language
Published Sept. 10, 2007 by Companhia das Letras.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-359-1042-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 182830310
Quexi'er hai tan =
190 pages
Chinese language
Published Sept. 10, 2008 by Shang zhou chu ban.
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- 978-986-124-991-9Copied ISBN!
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