01794nam a22002897a 4500 5346 FISKH 20241127123236.0 241127b cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780307386175 FISKH eng FISKH FISKH PR6063.C4 823.914 McEvan, Ian On Chesil Beach / by Ian McEwan New York : Anchor Books ; 2007. 203 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm . U From the "marvelously gifted" and award-winning author of Atonement and Saturday. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence's response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence's anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite. Ian McEwan has caught with understanding and compassion the innocence of Edward and Florence at a time when marriage was presumed to be the outward sign of maturity and independence. 820 Lexile estimate U Raz-Plus marriage Fiction honeymoon Fiction Jones, Louis Title page illustrator ddc BK 0 5346 5346 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC 001 001 SBS 2024-11-27 0 MCE 823.914 PR6063.C4 FISSE04343 2024-11-27 12:32:33 2024-11-27 BK