I have been an admirer of Ian McEwan's writing style since my introduction to 'Atonement' (see earlier review) and when The Times listed him among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945", I can plainly see why. By comparison, I was less enamoured by 'Solar' (also previously reviewed), but my la...
If I can paraphrase the first sentence from the description – A novel of remarkable shallowness and pretence from one of the most over-hyped writers of our time.
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 Ia...
This novel by Ian McEwan is the scene of the intense wedding night of Edward and Florence. Taking place in England in the early 60's, the couple spends their first honeymoon night at an an inn on Chesil Beach. Alternating back and forth, the two characters relive and describe their childhood, how ...
Almost a five star book. This is the second book by McEwan that I've read. It confirms for me that he is the best living British author that I've read. The book really is a novella and not a novel.The book is organized around a sexual encounter and its aftermath. It all the way through works inc...
I found this book really hard to read. It's only 166 pages long, but it took me about 6 weeks to read it. It had a moderately interesting blurb on the inside cover and I had wanted to read an Ian McEwan book after reading the reviews of a couple of his other books, but I kept finding more interestin...
to some degree I'm feeling bad over my treatment of McEwan; Atonement which suggested entree into the rarefied world of the British upper class and delivered squat with a notorious authorial device; Saturday which probably deserves the actual 1-star more courageous reviewers spotted it; literary fic...
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