The year is 1962. Florence, the daughter of a successful
businessman and an aloof Oxford academic, is a talented musician.
She dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life
she will create with Edward, the earnest young history student she
met by chance and who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Edward
grew up in the country on the outskirts of Oxford, where his
father, the headmaster of the local school, struggled to keep the
household together and his mother, brain-damaged...
als je eenmaal gaat lezen kan je het boek niet meer neerleggen. Ian McEwan heeft een boeiende schrijfstijl die je blijft verassen tot het laatste moment
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taalkunstenaar
12 oktober 2007
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Mijn eerste kennismaking met McEwan en meteen verliefd op zijn schrijfstijl en taalgebruik. Een aanrader voor iedereen.
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The year is 1962. Florence, the daughter of a successful
businessman and an aloof Oxford academic, is a talented musician.
She dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life
she will create with Edward, the earnest young history student she
met by chance and who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Edward
grew up in the country on the outskirts of Oxford, where his
father, the headmaster of the local school, struggled to keep the
household together and his mother, brain-damaged in an accident,
drifted in a world of her own. Edward's native intelligence,
coupled with a longing to experience the excitement and
intellectual fervor of the city, had taken him to University
College in London. Falling in love with the accomplished, shy, and
sensitive Florence-and having his affections returned with equal
intensity - has utterly changed his life. Their marriage, they
believe, will bring them happiness and the confidence to fulfill
their true destinies. The glowing promise of the future, however,
cannot totally mask their worries about the wedding night. Edward,
who has had little experience with women, frets about his sexual
prowess. Florence's anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by
conflicting emotions and a fear of the moment she will surrender
herself to her husband in their honeymoon suite.
From the precise and intimate depiction of two young lovers eager
to rise above the hurts and confusion of the past, to the touching
story of how their unexpressed misunderstandings and resentments
shape the rest of their lives, ON CHESIL BEACH is an extraordinary
exploration of how the entire course of a life can be changed - by
a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
als je eenmaal gaat lezen kan je het boek niet meer neerleggen. Ian McEwan heeft een boeiende schrijfstijl die je blijft verassen tot het laatste moment
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taalkunstenaar
12 oktober 2007
| Zwolle
Mijn eerste kennismaking met McEwan en meteen verliefd op zijn schrijfstijl en taalgebruik. Een aanrader voor iedereen.
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