On Chesil Beach, Film Tie-In

Winner of the 2008 Reader's Digest Author of the Year

von Ian McEwan

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Taschenbuch
176 Seiten; 198 mm x 129 mm
Sprache English
MDT
2018 Random House UK; Vintage
ISBN 978-1-78470-556-5

Besprechung

Wonderful...exquisite...devastating Independent on Sunday

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Kurztext / Annotation

Ian McEwan's celebrated novel, now an unmissable film starring Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Brooklyn)

Langtext

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Biografische Anmerkung zu den Verfassern

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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