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On Chesil Beach
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Sheila Deeth
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Like Chesil Beach, our lives are built on pebbles stranded by chance. In Ian McEwan’s novel, the course of dreams has led to the wedding night of two characters who, like any married couple, might just as easily never have met. Each carries the secrets of their time—1960s, before the sexual revolution, when intimacy wasn’t talked about and fears were never expressed. The question arises promptly—how much control will those secrets, born of small moments, have over the future of love. Ian McEwan’s ability to slip into the mind of a woman’s wounded innocence drives one third of this tale, while his masterful depiction of man’s balancing act between action and emotion drives another. But a third story slips between the lines, extending what could be a simple story of the 60s into a novel for all times. Those secrets we keep, those moments that break, those hurts that are secret until the right time which, being a moment itself, might never arise... Are there dark things untold in this novel? That’s for the reader to guess. Certainly sexual details are proffered with surprising detail and intimate compassion. But there’s always a sense of more, guessed at but never expressed. And if life’s unknowns are poured into music by the end, perhaps it’s the song of the waves on Chesil Beach. Disclosure: A friend didn’t particularly enjoy this novel so she gave it to me and I loved it.
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On Chesil Beach is a story of newlyweds whose miscommunication during their honeymoon end up destroying their chance for a life together. McEwan, with his amazing style and prose, shows us that our journey in life can be as fragile as a few words.
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I hated this book. Then I read it again to see if I was missing something-but still found it annoying. I think I was more frustrated than the characters.
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McEwan's writing is exquisite. In this case, exquisitely painful, as we wait page after page for the consummation of this marriage. Memories of one's personal awkwardness when entering the sexual realm are inevitable. This book might serve as a call for abstinence with our teenagers, just so they don't have to go through what these people endured.
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julieb43
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An interesting study of a freshly married young couple at the dawn of the radical 60's embarking on their honeymoon. Both are virgins and eager to please each other; but whereas the groom is nervously eager, the bride is more than just a little reluctant. McEwan sets up a situation whereby we are privy to each spouse's thoughts and feelings, allowing us to understand and sympathize with both. The novel, although brief, captures so much. It's concise and beautifully written, also achingly sad, as the newlyweds strive to understand each other, realizing that they hardly know themselves.
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ISBN:
9780307386175
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
06/10/2008
Publisher:
Vintage
Pages:
224
Height:
.72IN
Width:
5.42IN
Thickness:
.75
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2008
UPC Code:
2800307386177
Author:
Ian McEwan
Subject:
Domestic fiction
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Married people
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Intimacy (psychology)
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Literature-A to Z
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