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  On Chesil Beach (Vintage books) (Paperback) By (author) Ian McEwan

  

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  Short Description for On Chesil BeachIn a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, 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. This book presents the story that tells how the course of life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 03 January 2008
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099512790 ISBN 10: 0099512793
  • Sales rank: 5,145

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• 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...