Summary
IAN MCEWAN'S new novella, On Chesil Beach, is just 176 pages long and happily, on this occasion, there's not a whiff of plagiarism in the sea air.
The book has been widely praised by the critics as a tightly focused human drama and a model of concision. It is a form at which McEwan excels, being his fourth novella after The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers and Amsterdam (which won the Booker Prize in 1998).See the full content of this document
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To Cut a Long Story Short, That's a Novella
A novella is a deceptively simple form: it makes far more demands on the writer than a full-length novel. The...
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