Name: On Chesil Beach
Price: 16.77 EUR
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Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9780307386175

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ian McEwan

Publisher

Anchor Books

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

203

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN

0307386171

ISBN13

9780307386175

Edition No.

Synopsis "On Chesil Beach "

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple's wedding night. "No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan's accomplishment." --The Washington Post Book World It is 1962, and Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties become overwhelming. Unbeknownst to them both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates in On Chesil Beach a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons, available now.

Ian McEwan

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Ian McEwan (n. 1948) es un aclamado novelista y guionista británico, conocido por su prosa refinada y temas oscuros en sus inicios ("Ian Macabre"), que evolucionaron hacia obras maestras como Expiación y Amor perdurable, ganando prestigiosos premios como el Booker por Ámsterdam, y destacando por su exploración de la obsesión, la moralidad y la memoria, siendo adaptadas muchas de sus obras al cine con éxito

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