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Article: Wedding night jitters ; FICTION ++ On Chesil Beach ...
The Independent on Sunday;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... critic was able to describe Ian McEwan as "a marvellously macabre ... 166 pages - is called On Chesil Beach. Could this title be McEwan ... imminent violence, was absurd? Chesil Beach in Dorset is the setting ... repression and regret. In On Chesil Beach McEwan has combined ...

Article: Romance and the stones With the latest Ian McEwan ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ...In the opening pages of Ian McEwan's new novel, On Chesil Beach, its two central characters ... narrow lane descending to Chesil Beach. There was no gentle mist ... strolled down to the coast. Chesil Beach is a remarkable stretch of ...

Article: Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach.(English ...
Swiss News;  May 1, 2007 ;     319 words ...On Chesil Beach is another masterwork by the author of Atonement and Saturday. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married ...

Article: PRECIOUS STONES OF CHESIL BEACH ; Ian ...
The Independent - London;  April 4, 2007 ;     649 words ... ... illuminating moment at the start of Ian McEwan's latest novella On Chesil Beach. It comes as Edward and ... on the ancient shingle of Chesil Beach like, "hard smacks against ... of gravel that now form Chesil Beach. Indiscernible to the human ...

Transcript: Ian McEwan's 'On Chesil Beach'
NPR All Things Considered;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... All Things Considered 06-01-2007 Ian McEwan's 'On Chesil Beach' Host: ROBERT SIEGEL Time 21:00 ... start of the novel read for us today by Ian McEwan. Mr. IAN McEWAN (Novelist, "On Chesil Beach"): (Reading) They were young ...

Article: How I hang on to hope in a tide of fear ; In our perilously ...
The Independent - London;  April 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the "infinite shingle" of Chesil Beach in Dorset, as Ian McEwan did while composing his new ... critics have lauded On Chesil Beach as a major achievement from ... alike, stresses that On Chesil Beach aims at more than just the ...

Article: From Chesil Beach to the lost hills of Galilee ...
The Scotsman;  August 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... thoughtful writer (when is Ian McEwan anything else?) and ... of what kind of writer Ian McEwan, pictured, has been ... see a different kind of Ian McEwan too, and one his fiction ... his protagonist in On Chesil Beach in the novella's epilogue ...