'On Chesil Beach' tells a tragic story of crossed love
May 18, 2018
2 minutes
“This was still the era – it would end later in that famous decade – when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.”
So reads an early passage in Ian McEwan’s resoundingly melancholy 2007 novel “On Chesil Beach,” set mostly in
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