On Chesil Beach
Cover of UK hardback | |
| Author | Ian McEwan |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Chris Frazer Smith |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 166 |
| ISBN | 0-224-08118-7 |
| OCLC | 76797966 |
| 823.914 | |
On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novella by the British writer Ian McEwan. It was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist.
The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley placed On Chesil Beach on his top ten list for 2007, praising McEwan's writing and saying that "even when he's in a minor mode, as he is here, he is nothing short of amazing".