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On Chesil Beach [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Ian McEwan (Author, Reader)

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Release Date: 27 Mar 2007

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come...

On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

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On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

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Publisher: Audiobooks (27 Mar 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1846571006
ISBN-13: 978-1846571008
Product Dimensions: 14.4 x 2.4 x 12.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Listening non-stop to McEwan intensifies the book's impact" (The Times )

"With exquisite sensitivity and realism, McEwan draws us into lives, not as voyeur, but as anguished participant. Authors aren't always the best choice for reading their own works - but in this case he is. If McEwan ever runs out of ideas, he could make a living reading audiobooks." (The Express )

"McEwan reads his latest creation with a deadpan rhythm that mimics the inability of his characters to overcome their inadequacies. He proves himself a master of storytelling, and the interview with him at the end of the audiobook is a wonderful insight into his work." (The Observer )

"The author's understated voice is well suited to this poignant story of British repression ... An illuminating interview with the author, in which he explains the inspiration behind his novella, is another bonus." (FT Magazine )

"The audiobook is worth mentioning ,though, for two reasons. Firstly, it is read by the author (nad all the better for that). But as an added treat, this version features a half-hour interview with Ian McEwan at the end of the fourth CD." (David Crozier H&H Series 20070920)

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An audiobook of remarkable depth, power and poignancy by an author at the height of his powers

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4.0 out of 5 stars Short but intense 6 Jun 2013

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I had already read this novel and though, on my opinion is not the best of its author it is a good novella ( as Ian McEwan likes to describe it) with a quite "hot" theme and well worked out.
I have enjoyed it for the second time in my life. The first time I read it translated into spanish and now I have read it in english, really improving the understanding of the story.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A Talented Wordcrafter Describes an Improbable Honeymoon 6 July 2007

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If you are easily seduced by beautiful sentences, you'll feel On Chesil Beach is a five-star book. If you love exploring inner dialogue, you'll be even more pleased with this book.

If, however, you like your stories to be compelling because of their relevance and interest to your own life, you'll wonder why in the world Mr. McEwan chose to write about this particular problem of poor communications in the context of 1962. As you delve deeper into the book, you'll be even more puzzled by the book's pivotal event and the characters' reactions to it.

The short book (neither novella nor full novel) is organized in five parts that seem much like the acts in a Greek tragedy. The opening scene shows a couple dining in their room at an inn. "They 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." The second act describes how they met. The third act takes place in their bedroom in the inn. The fourth act describes their courtship. The fifth act takes place on the beach and in their lives afterward as they attempt and fail to communicate.

Mr. McEwan does a good job of capturing your attention through exploring the couple's growing tension as they move toward the consummation of their marriage. But past that point, the story seemed like a punctured balloon to me: My interest was gone. I suspect that reaction is because I didn't feel close to either character; they are more there to entertain me than to lead me into experiencing the story like the characters do.

Clearly, the story would have worked much better for me if focused around a more universal trial in marriage, such as handling both sets of parents during the birth of a first child.... Read more ›

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