- Booker Prize 2007 · Shortlist
On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan (born 1948)
English editions
Written in EnglishOn Chesil Beach
Vintage · United Kingdom · 6 July 2023 · Paperback · 176 pages
On Chesil Beach
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday · United States · June 2007 · Hardcover · 203 pages
On Chesil Beach
Jonathan Cape · United Kingdom · 2007
On Chesil Beach
Vintage · United States · 10 June 2008 · Paperback · 224 pages
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Edward Mayhew, a history graduate who grew up in a modest Oxfordshire household with a mother left damaged by an accident, and Florence Ponting, the intense, warm child of a business owner and an Oxford academic, who leads her own string quartet, are in their early twenties and deeply in love. On the evening of their wedding they eat dinner in their room at a small hotel by Chesil Beach. Neither has the words to talk about sex: he is eager and anxious, she is privately repelled by the very thought of it. As they look back over their childhoods and courtship, the gulf of class and temperament between them shows, and what they choose to do that night will echo through all the years that follow.
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- Novel
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, 1962
- First published
- 2007
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
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9780385522403 (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, United States)
9780224081184 (Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom)
9780307386175 (Vintage, United States)
9780099512790 (Vintage, United Kingdom)
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