On Chesil Beach is more of a novella than a novel and tells the story of Florence and Edward on their wedding night in 1962. Despite being very much in love, they have never broached the subject of sex and both are anxious for different reasons - Edward has performance anxiety and Florence is repul...
A tale of a young love is told through the lens of an awkward wedding night. It's a smooth and easy read, with compassion and insight into the inner struggles of the characters.
Really more like 2.5 stars - a true middle-of-the-road rating. I like McEwan quite a bit but this book just felt dry to me. It felt somewhat like it was an exercise: McEwan tries a bit of Pinter. But really it was just a novella gussied up as a novel and was, in the end, mostly harmless and a bit...
Back in about 1988 a friend lent me a novel she had just finished reading. "You must read this", she said, "it's amazing". The book was The Child in Time and I had heard of neither the book nor its author before. My friend was right about the book being amazing. I still remember being very impressed...
This broke my heart. But beautifully written (as expected) and an incredible insight into the follies of human nature and the everyday tragedies and mistakes of trying to love one another.
Well, what we have here is a hard-on...ehm a hard one to review.I bought this book on second-hand bookstall in some Oxford charity shop on an autumn day and kept it on a shelf for -hmmm- a couple of months, I think. You know, it was a book by McEwan, therefore in my mind something with the label "to...
I've been wondering how to classify this book for myself. I'd call it a comedy of errors, except that I didn't find anything even remotely funny in this book. I guess therefore that a tragedy of errors would be a better description.This is the story of two young people, Edward and Florence, whom we ...
Well, that was about the biggest helping of blues porridge I've eaten in a long time. I don't normally like Ian McEwan much, but this one had all the right elements. I especially liked the way he went back into their early lives to show how they were almost doomed to fail at communication and intima...
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