Vintage On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan

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Set in 1962, this is the description of the wedding night of two young twenty-somethings, Edward and Florence. Set before the sexual revolution really got going later in the 60s, this young couple have come to their wedding night inexperienced and unsure, both of themselves and of what to expect from each other. Sex before marriage and open discussion of sex, although not unheard of, were still somewhat taboo at the time, and marriage still seen as the main rite of passage into adulthood. Both have ... Paperback edition of this short novel of remarkable depth, power and poignancy from the author of }Atonement{, among many other acclaimed novels. In a hotel in Dorset in 1962, a couple who got married that morning are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. Another resonant story of how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Publikace: On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan. Wonderful...exquisite...devastating' Independent on Sunday. 'On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece' Times Literary Supplement. 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... Publikace: On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan. CCV: `two characters so vibrant they step straight off the page' --The Tablet Guardian 'In its precision, scope...