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On Chesil Beach: A Novel

Ian McEwan

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"I was really interested in reading Chesil Beach because I read an excerpt of it in the New York Magazine, and it stopped right at a point that was so interesting I had to know what happened next. One of its main themes is sexuality and what it means to try and marry another human when you haven't talked to them at all; and suddenly you're thrown into this intimate situation. It takes place on the wedding night, and if you grew up in the '50's and you came of age then instead of being a little kid like I was, you had every likelihood of marrying someone with whom you've never had sex, never talked about sex, never had any kind of physical closeness except the girl trying to protect her virginity and the boy trying to get her not to. So this stands up well even though it's a short time -- it's a short book -- but still, he has a wonderful, McEwan has a wonderful way of showing the characters honestly. It comes across to me as a brilliant study of why did those things change? Because they didn't work. In this book, it just doesn't work; and we see the pain of these two people that want to spend their lives together. They're wonderful friends, but they can't do that because they haven't the tools to make it work. Do these two people find a way or not? I'm not gonna spoil that. It's just suspenseful, it's well done, and that's what made me put down The New Yorker and run to the bookstore for the book. I'd give it five. For me, McEwan can do very little wrong. He is just, I'd say, one of the best living writers today."