num_pages: 480
description: In this illustrious international selection Robert Drewe has drawn together twenty-five of the finest contemporary writers whose stories represent the most stimulating startling deeply moving and humorous writing about the beach. Contributors include Paul Bowles Italo Calvino Raymond Carver Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nadine Gordimer Ian McEwan David Malouf John Cheever Graham Swift  John Updike and Keri Hulme.
language: English
title: The Penguin Book of the Beach
publisher: Penguin Books