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Atonement

by Ian McEwan
$11.43
Atonement - Thryft
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  • Booker Prize Nominee (2001)
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2001)
  • Whitbread Award Nominee for Novel (2001)
  • WH Smith Literary Award (2002)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2002)
  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (2002)
  • Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) for Internationale Belletristik (2003)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2002)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2002)
  • Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2003)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Atonement

by Ian McEwan
$11.43
ISBN: 9780224062527
Authors: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date of Publication: 2001-09-20
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Related Topics: Literature, Classics, War, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.94
(rated by 515968 readers)

Description

Atonement is Ian McEwan's ninth novel and his first since the Booker Prize-winning Amsterdam in 1998. But whereas Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more sturdy, ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, think and experiment. We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama The Trials of Arabella to welcome home her elder, idolised brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren't up to the task, and directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting preoccupations come onto the scene. The charlady's son Robbie Turner appears to be forcing Briony's sister Cecilia to strip in the Fountain and sends her obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to promote his new "Army Amo" bar; and upstairs Briony's migraine-stricken mother Emily keeps tabs on the house from her bed. Soon, secrets emerge that change the lives of everyone present... The interwar upper-middle-class setting of the book's long, masterfully sustained opening section might recall Virginia Woolf or Henry Green, but as we move forward--eventually to the turn of the 21st century--the novel's central concerns emerge, and McEwan's voice becomes clear, even personal. For at heart, Atonement is about the pleasures, pains and dangers of writing, and perhaps even more, about the challenge of controlling what readers make of your writing. McEwan shouldn't have any doubts about readers of Atonement: this is a thoughtful, provocative and at times moving book that will have readers applauding.--Alan Stewart
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  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (2002)
  • Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) for Internationale Belletristik (2003)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2002)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2002)
  • Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2003)
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