![]() ![]() He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, the son of David McEwan and Rose Lilian Violet (nee Moore). Ian Russell McEwan is an English novelist. ![]() Education-B.A., University of Sussex M.A. ![]() Brief and elegiac, On Chesil Beach spotlights the talents of a literary grand master at the top of his game. One of McEwan's greatest skills is his ability to limn the precise, irrevocable moment in which life changes forever.Īnd although that moment is telegraphed within the first few pages of this rueful tale, it loses none of its tragic, devastating force when it occurs. Locked in their inhibitions and utterly unable to discuss their fears and needs, they are victims not only of personal experience but of a distinctively British brand of repression destined to crumble in the sexual revolution. He longs to consummate the marriage she is repelled by the very idea. Very much in love, Edward and Florence are predictably nervous, but for different reasons. Ian McEwan's emotionally charged novel follows an inexperienced young couple through their disastrous wedding night at a Dorset hotel in 1962. ![]()
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