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Date Posted: 11:19:37 11/02/07 Fri
Author: Jean Reif Robinson
Subject: Re: inference of sexual abuse in Florence's frigidity in McEwan's On Chesil Beach
In reply to: Mrs. A. King 's message, "inference of sexual abuse in Florence's frigidity in McEwan's On Chesil Beach" on 14:31:32 04/08/07 Sun

My first reading of this book, I missed any allusions to sexual abuse by Florence's father; but then I listened to Ian McKewan's interview and he says there was sexual abuse;also he says that he nearly added into the latter part of the novel that Edward (in his later years) sees an article in the paper about her father being arrested for sexual abuse of a teenager, but decided against including it. I listened to the audiobook all over again trying to "hear" intimations of sexual abuse by Florence's father, but it is far too restrained if it is there at all.
I love the novel, but wish the issue of abuse had been just a bit clearer to the reader (not in the way it is in most novels nowadays, because that would have been "out of the character of that age," but just some little bit more of an indication.

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