On Chesil Beach

Title: On Chesil Beach Author: Ian McEwan ISBN: 9780307386175 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Published: 2008 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Fiction 1625757 Publisher Description: 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 sto