On Chesil Beach -- Ian McEwan

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of <i>Atonement</i> brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple's wedding night. <p/>"No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan's accomplishment. --<i>The Washington Post Book World </i></b> <p/> 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 <i>On Chesil Beach</i> a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. <p/><b>Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, <i>Lessons</i>, coming in September!</b><br><br><b>Author:</b> Ian McEwan<br><b>Publisher:</b> Anchor Books<br><b>Published:</b> 06/10/2008<br><b>Pages:</b> 224<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.60lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.02h x 5.42w x 0.72d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780307386175<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times Book Review</i> 06/22/2008 pg. 20<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p>Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of seventeen books, including the novels <i>Nutshell</i>; <i>The Children Act</i>; <i>Sweet Tooth</i>; <i>Solar</i>, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; <i>On Chesil Beach</i>; <i>Saturday</i>; <i>Atonement</i>, win