On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
‘it centers on the anxious wedding dinner of Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting, in the summer of 1963. The looming dramatic crisis is the marriage’s impending consummation, or lack of it. Edward is a rough-hewn but sweet student of history, Florence, a female Oxford philosophy professor, is intense but warm. Their fears about sex and their inability to discuss them form the story’s center. Ian McEwan’s flawless omniscient narration has a curious (and not unpleasantly condescending) fable-like quality, as if an older self were simultaneously disavowing and affirming a younger.The story itself isn’t arresting, but the narrator’s journey through it is…’
$14 http://www.amazon.com/Publisher: Knopf Canada (April 3, 2007)
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