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050			_aPR6063.C4
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100			_aMcEvan, Ian
245			_aOn Chesil Beach / _cby Ian McEwan
260			_aNew York : _bAnchor Books ; _c2007.
300			_a203 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm .
505			_aU
520			_aFrom 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.
521	8		_a820 _bLexile estimate
521	8		_aU _bRaz-Plus
650			_amarriage _vFiction
650			_ahoneymoon _vFiction
700			_aJones, Louis _eTitle page illustrator
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