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title: "On Chesil Beach Paperback – June 10, 2008"
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# On Chesil Beach Paperback – June 10, 2008

**Brand:** ian mcewan
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## Customer Reviews

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    A Duet in a Minor Key
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2020*

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan This quiet little book is, like the others I’ve read by McEwan, limited to a single, tragically brief honeymoon trip to Chesil Beach in Great Britain.  The bride and groom are very much in love, but they are the products of a culture in which sex is weighted down with shame, guilt and secrecy.  The book illuminates the courses of their earlier lives have brought them to this nuptial night and a confrontation that sets the course for the remainder of their days. It’s hard not to see the fingerprints of Freudian psychology all over this book.  In this it seems capture a moment in the development of Western attitudes towards sex and marriage.  The writing is captivating as only McEwan knows how to make it.  The compulsions and traumas haunting these two young people are almost unspoken as is appropriate for matters hidden in the subconscious and, as such, may escape readers not attuned to psychoanalytical factors.

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    McEwan Slips Back into Victorian Time Warp
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 23, 2007*

It's 1962, and Edward and Florence, both virgins, are having dinner on the first night of their honeymoon at a hotel on England's Chesil Beach. The two young marrieds seem like they're living in 1862, and McEwan seems like he's writing in 1862. She's terrified of sex, and he's roaringly anxious to get it on. The book covers their courtship and their families in detail. Of course the author of the fine novel "Atonement" is deft at telling a story, building suspense, and etching characters, but what he has to say in this novella is unfortunately slight and conventional. It's about a failure to communicate in advance of marriage, so what else is new? Florence's love of music, the violin, and her string quartet and Edward's love of history and nature--these are delineated very well. Of Edward on his wedding night McEwan writes, "His painful craving was building intolerably, and he was frightened by his own savage impatience and the furious words or actions it might provoke, and so end the evening." Florence had always been afraid of hurting other people's feelings, but she fails at a critical juncture. The last two pages of the book are really heart-wrenching because often by not saying something at the crucial time, our whole life courses are altered. It's a beautifully told narrative that can be read in a very short time span. At the beginning the author sets his story in the historical period and chronicles generational changes in behavior, but he, his characters and story seem to creep back into the Victorian era. Newlyweds: Hearken! Talk everything, and I mean everything, out before you get hitched.

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    'This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.'
  

*by G***P on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 31, 2007*

Ian McEwan is a master of atmospheric writing, taking a seemingly isolated incident and building a story around it in a way that the reader completely lives in the moment described by his novel. He selects strange topics and then makes them feel so familiar by comparison to each of our lives that exploring the dense background he paints pulls us in like a strong magnet.  Reading McEwan is one of the rare pleasures literature lovers find.  Few writers of today can match his quiet, subtle, but bravura technique.ON CHESIL BEACH is essentially a study of a wedding night, a night when the two characters involved approach the virginal consummation of their marriage with disastrous results.  Florence is bright, a gifted violinist, beautiful and fragile in affairs of the heart and senses: she is frigid.  Edward, her new husband, is of lower class than she, but has reached a degree of education and overcome some thorny family obstacles to become a young bridegroom longing for his marriage night, a night he blunders with premature ejaculation.  McEwan leads into this evening and its subsequent resolution on Chesil Beach with delicate prose, brings us to the topic of climax, and then offers flashes of background of each of his characters that allows us to understand the subsequent course of events 'doing nothing' brings.In beautiful prose, stunningly elegant writing, and rich observations of life in the early 1960s with all that the decade of 'enlightenment' and changes in England and the world produced, Ian McEwan has created another masterpiece. Highly recommended.  Grady Harp, August 07

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