MCEWAN, IAN
It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come...
On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
Ian McEwan va néixer el 1948, i va començar a escriure el 1970. Viu i treballa a Londres. Pel seu primer llibre, el recull de narracions First love, last rites (1975) va rebre el premi Somerset Maugham del 1976. A més d'In between the sheets (1978), que ara traduïm, ha publicat també tres novel·les: The cement garden (1979), The comfort of strangers (1981) i The child in time (1987).