Book #20203

On Chesil Beach - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Ian McEwan
Book #20203 On Chesil Beach - 1st US Edition/1st Printing. Ian McEwan.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First US Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2007.
ISBN: 0385522401

A most handsome first US edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket.

"It Is July 1962, Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their fears of the wedding night to come...." (from the dust-wrapper) ; 12mo ; [xii], [2], 3-203, [11] pages.

Price: $60.00

Author Bio

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, England on June 21, 1948. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize six times, winning the 1998 award for his novel Amsterdam. His novel Atonement received considerable acclaim. Time Magazine named it the best novel of 2002, it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and it was made into the 2007 major motion picture, starring Keira Knightly and James McAvoy. In 2008, McEwan was listed as one of “The Fifty Greatest British Writers since 1945”.