On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan • 2007
Devastation Rating
marriage regret 1960s sexuality
Our Take
A wedding night in 1962 that goes badly wrong — and McEwan shows you everything that follows from that one irreversible hour. Edward and Florence do not understand each other and are not given the language to. The brief flash-forward at the end is the most economical tragedy McEwan has written.
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