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On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

On Chesil Beach

A Novel

by Ian McEwan
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  • First Published:
  • Jun 5, 2007, 208 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jun 2008, 224 pages
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  Selected Events from the early 1960s (from a British perspective)

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