Ian McEwan's "On Chesil Beach" Tipped For the Man Booker Prize

Ian Mcewan’s On Chesil Beach has been tipped as hot favourite for the Booker Prize. But I cannot comment on the shortlist when I have not read any of the shortlisted novels. And I am not one of those who love to join a bandwagon when they don’t even know what the bandwagon is all about.

Ian Mcewan has an impressive history as one of the best living writers and has already won the Booker for his Amsterdam (1998). His Atonement (2001) was also shortlisted for the Booker and made the list of the 100 best novels since 1923 to date. The film adaptation is already an instant classic after the world premiere at the on-going Venice International Film Festival.

I like him, because we share similar intellectual traits in writing prose, verse, drama, teleplays, screenplays, etc. And we have similar cosmopolitan views of life on earth.

You can read the first chapter of Ian Mcewan’s latest novel On Chesil Beach on the New Yorker.

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Ian McEwan's Books:

1. First Love, Last Rites (Short Stories) - Cape, 1975


2. In Between the Sheets (Short Stories) - Cape, 1978


3. The Cement Garden - Cape, 1978


4. The Comfort of Strangers - Cape, 1981


5. The Imitation Game (three plays for television: Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration; Solid Geometry; The Imitation Game) Cape, 1981


6. Or Shall We Die? (libretto for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley) Cape, 1983


7. The Ploughman's Lunch (film script) Methuen, 1985


8. The Child in Time - Cape, 1987


9. Sour Sweet (film script based on the novel by Timothy Mo) Faber and Faber, 1988


10. The Innocent - Cape, 1990


11. Black Dogs - Cape, 1992


12. The Daydreamer - Cape, 1994


13. The Short Stories - Cape, 1995


14. Enduring Love - Cape, 1997


15. Amsterdam - Cape, 1998


16. Atonement - Cape, 2001


17. On Modern British Fiction (contributor: 'Mother Tongue - A Memoir') Oxford University Press, 2002


18. Saturday - Cape, 2005


19. On Chesil Beach - Cape, 2007

We read enduring love for my English literature class this year