On Chesil Beach [Lingua inglese]: Ian McEwan - Brossura

Mcewan, Ian

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ISBN 10: 0099512793 ISBN 13: 9780099512790

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2010

Riassunto

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 and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

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Recensione:

"Wonderful...exquisite...devastating" (Independent on Sunday)

"Exquisitely crafted" (Evening Standard)

"Superb... The protagonists have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life my McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force" (Financial Times)

"On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece" (Karl Miller Times Literary Supplement)

"This is McEwan's mature style, one we have come to recognise from Atonement and Saturday. It is a polished, civilised style, and very distant from the shock tactics of his early work... McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us; and their seriousness, their idealism, and their desire for love draw us towards them" (Natasha Walter Guardian)

"To commend an author for being reminiscent of Edith Wharton is a compliment that this reviewer reserves for a select few. Yet with On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan has earnt it" (Lionel Shriver Telegraph)

"A master feat of concentration in both senses of the word" (Peter Kemp Sunday Times)

"Written with a fierce pursuit of the truth and an utterly modern self-awareness, what a confidant tour de force this turns out to be" (Sunday Express)

"One of our greatest living writers. Many Easter weekends and train journeys will be enlivened by a compelling novella" (Christopher Dolan Herald)

"It is a masterpiece. The very idea that informs it, fascinating and unfamiliar, is masterly" (Karl Miller TLS)

Descrizione del libro:

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, On Chesil Beach is a compact and devastating novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan

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• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099512793
• ISBN 13: 9780099512790
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 166