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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 |
Ian McEwan
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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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Sometimes when I write these reviews, especially when they're of novels with widespread popularity and critical acclaim, I start to feel like a real curmudgeon. Is there anything really wrong with Ian McEwan's Atonement? Is it not a compelling story well told? Is the writing not clear, succinct, and free of pretentiousness? Does McEwan not draw the reader into a well-imagined world and hold him there until the last page? The answer to all these questions is yes. Yet still, yet still...Maybe it'sI was bored with this until half way through, but then it got interesting. It touches on imagination versus reality, fiction versus fact, in addition to the story content. A portrait of an upper middle class English family is interrupted by a supposed rape in which a young imaginative (vengeful) girl misidentifies the rapist. I found that it stayed with me and that I appreciated it more with time. The film was a magnificent translation.
Atonement is a post-modernist interpretation of historical fiction. How historical fiction is a kind of double fiction, a fiction within a fiction. Not that McEwans intellectual mischief detracts from his gift for storytelling. For this is a compelling and moving story and its not until the end that we are called upon to question the roots of storytelling. How all the stories we tell require a measure of illusion to sustain them. And how narrative itself is a selective process brilliantly
When I read a contemporary 21st century novel, especially a really good one, I often wonder, will it become a classic? Will people still be reading it 150 years from now? It's hard to know of course. Occasionally I read one that I think will still be around, will be read and appreciated years from now. Atonement is one of those. The setting, the plot, the time period, the historical aspect, were all perfectly connected. The characters were so real that I felt like I was reading a historical
A beautifully written and cleverly told story of relationships, growing up, guilt and, obviously, atonement and forgiveness. The essence of the story is how a childish mistake, made in good faith (more or less) can have consequences for many people, for many years. Although it would be better to read this before watching the film, Id heard that the book had been thought unfilmable and so was pretty different, which ensured I was alert to reading it with fresh eyes. Part 1 is perhaps not quite as
Is there word beyond 'amazing' that I can use? Some word beyond 'enthralling'? I need them. I'm reaching for them. But I literally just finished the book and I'm so much in awe of it I just can't. It's perfect. It's perfect in every image and line and mirror and echo. Ian McEwan is such a master of language and storycraft.I devoured this book in a day. Less than a day. Ignoring all other work to do so. And it was TOTALLY worth it. I can't think of what to praise first this point, so I'm going to
A 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
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