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"Heartbreaking. . . . Breathtaking. . . . Masterly. . . . No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan's accomplishment." --The Washington Post Book World
"Remarkable, engaging, and gripping. . . . On Chesil Beach is not only a wonderful read but also perhaps that rarest of things: a perfect novel." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Dazzling. . . . McEwan treats [his subject] with a boundless sympathy, one that enlists the reader even as it disguises the fact that this seeming novel of manners is as fundamentally a horror novel as any [he's] written." --Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review
"A small, perfect, haunting work of art. . . . McEwan draws a humane, touching, sometimes comic portrait of marital misunderstanding in an era when so much less was sayable, or said." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Vintage McEwan. . . . His finely honed prose is a deep pleasure to experience." --Chicago Sun-Times
"Marvelously realized. . . .Wrenching, funny, smart, and hugely gratifying in unexpected ways. . . . On Chesil Beach is as merciful to its characters as it is merciless in its heartbreak." --The Boston Globe
"Exquisite. . . . compressed, crisp, [and] warmly specific. . . .[A] small masterpiece." --Entertainment Weekly, "A"
"Quietly riveting. . . . McEwan has never written more beautifully than he does in [this] melancholy and haunting new novel." --O, The Oprah Magazine
"A poignant meditation on love's ebb and flow." --Vogue
"A parable of failed empathy . . . mordant [and] melancholy." --The Village Voice
"Completely absorbing. . . . [I]nfused with a bitter poignancy...intense and powerful . . . a masterpiece." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Descripción Softcover. Condición: New. Reprint. Product DescriptionNATIONAL BESTSELLER The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couples wedding night.No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan's accomplishment." -The Washington Post Book WorldIt 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 On Chesil Beach a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.Dont miss Ian McEwans new novel, Lessons, available now.ReviewHeartbreaking. Breathtaking. Masterly. No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan's accomplishment." -The Washington Post Book WorldRemarkable, engaging, and gripping. On Chesil Beach is not only a wonderful read but also perhaps that rarest of things: a perfect novel." -San Francisco ChronicleDazzling. McEwan treats [his subject] with a boundless sympathy, one that enlists the reader even as it disguises the fact that this seeming novel of manners is as fundamentally a horror novel as any [he's] written." -Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book ReviewA small, perfect, haunting work of art. McEwan draws a humane, touching, sometimes comic portrait of marital misunderstanding in an era when so much less was sayable, or said." -Los Angeles Times Book ReviewVintage McEwan. His finely honed prose is a deep pleasure to experience." -Chicago Sun-TimesMarvelously realized. Wrenching, funny, smart, and hugely gratifying in unexpected ways. On Chesil Beach is as merciful to its characters as it is merciless in its heartbreak." -The Boston GlobeExquisite. compressed, crisp, [and] warmly specific. [A] small masterpiece." -Entertainment Weekly, AQuietly riveting. McEwan has never written more beautifully than he does in [this] melancholy and haunting new novel." -O, The Oprah MagazineA poignant meditation on love's ebb and flow." -VogueA parable of failed empathy . mordant [and] melancholy." -The Village VoiceCompletely absorbing. [I]nfused with a bitter poignancyintense and powerful . a masterpiece." -The Philadelphia InquirerAbout the AuthorIAN MCEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.ONEThey were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible. But it is never easy. They had just sat down to supper in a tiny sitting room on the first floor of a Georgian inn. In the next room, visible through the open door, was a four-poster bed, rather narrow, whose bedcover was pure white and stretched startlingly smooth, as though by no human hand. Edward did not mention that he had never stayed in a hotel before, whereas Florence, after many trips as a child with her father, was an old hand. Superficially, they were in fine spirits. Their wedding, at St. Marys, Oxford, had gone well; the service was decorous, the reception jolly, the send-off from school and college friends raucous and uplifting. Her p. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX0307386171
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