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ON CHESIL BEACH
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| By: |
Ian McEwan |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099512793 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099512790 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2008 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
Edward and Florence, who married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their hotel room overlooking Chesil Beach. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This book, by the author of Atonement, shows how the course of life can be changed by a gesture which has not been made or by a word which has not been spoken. |
| Synopsis: |
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... |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Winner of British Book Awards: Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2008
Winner of British Book Awards: Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2008
Short-listed for Irish Book Awards: RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award:
Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007 |
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