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Saoirse Ronan Has A Thing for Ian McEwan

She would like to play a woman written by McEwan "every 10 years."
Saoirse Ronan stars as Florence Ponting in ON CHESIL BEACH, a Bleecker Street release.
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is less than 40,000 words, but each is as polished and integral to Ian McEwan’s novella as the famous pebbles that make up the 18 miles of protected beach along England’s Dorset coast. Its moody beauty is the honeymoon backdrop for McEwan’s 2007 book, in which a brief marriage will end after a night of

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