![]() He won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998. ![]() On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from McEwana story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. British author Ian McEwan is the author of many fine novels. 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. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florences response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florences 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 done the screenplay based. You might wonder, in this day and age, how interesting a film can that be Very. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. 'On Chesil Beach' is the story of an unconsummated love and marriage. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. ![]() 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. A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. In On Chesil Beach McEwan has combined the intensity of his narrowly focused early work with his more expansive later flowered to devastating effect. ![]()
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