On Chesil Beach

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple's wedding night.

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 06/10/2008
ISBN: 9780307386175
Pages: 203
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.42w x 0.72d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 06/22/2008 pg. 20