On Chesil Beach

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Published April 1, 2007

ISBN:
978-0-224-08118-4
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On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novella by the British writer Ian McEwan. It was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist. The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley placed On Chesil Beach on his top ten for 2007, praising McEwan's writing and saying that "even when he's in a minor mode, as he is here, he is nothing short of amazing".

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I used to like Ian McEwan. When I was travelling around Europe by train in the early 80s I would often have one of his books in my backpack - First Love Last Rites, The Cement Garden, In Between The Sheets.
The books of the 90s didn't do it for me. I decided to risk the slim On Chesil Beach to see if we have become reconciled, but we haven't. The writing is very skilled, but the content - both theme and characters - is not. It's an uninteresting story about two unappealing, tedious people.

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