True to Ian McEwan's form...a beautiful story | On Chesil Beach

Don't Let Your Hubris Be Your Hamartia | On Chesil Beach | Ian Mcewan

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	• On Chesil Beach Ian Mcewan Anchor, 2008 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 217 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Jeweler's Eye

With meticulous precision, Ian McEwan examines the wedding night of an innocent couple, who marry in 1962 and spend their first night alone together at a hotel on Chesil Beach. In always elegant prose, McEwan displays his great gift for describing the particular and making it universal. In this case, he turns his jeweler's eye on the misunderstandings between a young man and young woman, deeply in love and deeply inhibited. Recommended for anyone who has ever loved or hoped to love.

True to Ian McEwan's form...a beautiful story

I finished this beautiful story in one afternoon. I have read several of Ian McEwan's books and have loved every single one. He has this uncanny knack of drawing you into every agonizing situation, causing you to feel exactly what the character is feeling. Much like Atonement, the last few pages make your stomach turn and a lump gather in your throat. Ian McEwan is writing genius personified, proven again in this wonderful novel.

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Don't Let Your Hubris Be Your Hamartia

This book says: Your life can change in one moment. One bad decision, one hour of inflated pride or of deflated self-confidence, and your way may be lost, your course derailed, and you may not be smart enough or brave enough to fix it when you should.

This book is poetic, brief, heart-wrenching. You will read it overnight.

McEwan's seamless movement through time - taking you from Point A (a second-by-millisecond play-by-play of the couples first and foiled attempt at making love) to Point B (a condensed reflection on the monotony of their regular and separate lives, two decades later) - accentuates the way memories of some painful, scary, awkward, unprecedented seconds (spent trying to navigate romance, sex, and love) last a lifetime, while the memories of the years between such episodes (spent naviating the more predictable terrain of career changes, aging, and self-improvement) blur together and dissolve, lose their shape and form, are boiled down into resumes instead of love letters.

This book says: Don't let pride, fear, or practicality ruin your shot at true love. Just. Don't. Do. It.

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In 1962, Florence and Edward celebrate their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties weighs over them. And unbeknownst to 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.