Ian McEwan
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| Title | : | Atonement |
| Author | : | Ian McEwan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Anchor Books Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 351 pages |
| Published | : | March 2003 by Anchor Books (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Romance. Magic. Fiction. Dark Fantasy |
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Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
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| Original Title: | Atonement |
| ISBN: | 038572179X (ISBN13: 9780385721790) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Briony Tallis, Emily Tallis, Cecilia Tallis, Leon Tallis, Lola Quincy, Jackson Quincy, Perriot Quincy, Paul Marshall, Robbie Turner |
| Setting: | England France |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2001), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2001), WH Smith Literary Award (2002), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2002), Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (2002) National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2002), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2002), Deutscher Bücherpreis for Internationale Belletristik (2003), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2003), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2003) |
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In World War II England, 13-year-old Briony Tallis misinterprets her older sisters love affair with their familys gardener to be something much worse than what it is. Her innocence and partial understanding of the world begins a chain of events that tears the family apart and alters the course of the rest of the girls life.Sounds a little dry, right? Wrong! I guess I forgot to mention that the book was written by Ian McEwan, the king of uncomfortable moments, weird sex stuff, the rotatingA lesson to us all: never put anything in print that one day might come back to bite you in the ass.Having already seen the movie, I didn't particularly want to read the book (I've never read Mario Puzo's The Godfather, now have I?), but seeing as this book is a modern great, I felt it my duty to drag it from my book cave.Pleasingly, McEwan writes with aplomb about the human psyche: of lust, loathing, immaturity and guilt; his prose is word perfect.That said, the novel suffers from its own
Ah, to be young and bookish and to hate your status as a child To want to be part of the grown-ups' world, to want to understand their strange actions and their esoteric social codes, which seem so mysterious and sophisticated As we get older we often realize that none of this is quite as glamorous as we had imagined, and the rear-view mirror of memory can give new meanings to events we thought we understood so well in our youthBriony is the youngest child of rather comfortable British family,
Atonement, Ian McEwanAtonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.Abstract: On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis
There are many reviews already of this book, and I did wonder whether the world needed any more. But I disagree so strongly with some of the opinions expressed that I'm afraid I have to exercise my right to reply. Two things in particular stand out. Let me deal with the simpler one first. Some people seem appalled that the author is putting the guilt for this dreadful tragedy on the shoulders of a young girl. She didn't know what she was doing, they say; she was too young to understand the
**WARNING: Don't read this if you don't want the ending spoiled!**This book...I hate it! It's beautiful, every word of it is gorgeous, but it's as if the author spends all this time painstakingly crafting a really detailed, intricate vessel for you (I'm thinking of a boat :))and then just before your journey's over he snatches it out from under you & you sink. Why go to such lengths describing the lovers, and the war, and Briony & the nursing when in the end none of it even matters? The
In life, we all make mistakes. Some big, some small, but usually we quickly forget them. But what happens when you make a mistake that haunts you every day and you can do nothing about it?This book was fantastic. I loved the writing. I loved the characters. They were so well developed I could feel their emotions in myself as I read. I was deeply and truly satisfied by the story and the writing. When I closed the book after the last page I felt like I was sitting back after finishing an amazing
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