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Published by Nan A. Talese, US, 2007
ISBN 10: 1407002317ISBN 13: 9781407002316
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine/Fine. First Edition. A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed wr iters of our time. It is July 1962. 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 e arnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpecte dly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edwa rd and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their r ooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to com e. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence's response to his advance s and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence's anxieties run deep er: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but d reads disappointing her husband when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite. 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. On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from McEwan-a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 1407002317ISBN 13: 9781407002316
Seller: Merandja Books, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. A hardback book with book and in fine condition, dated 2007, 25th Anniversary Edition by Waterstones. Book is in a blue slipcase which is also in fine condition. All in brand new condition, sealed in sellophane and unopened.