Atonement

A Novel

Paperback, 368 pages

English language

Published March 6, 2003 by Anchor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-385-72179-0
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OCLC Number:
780495868

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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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Subjects

  • Country life
  • Guilt
  • Teenage girls
  • Sisters
  • Ex-convicts
  • Fiction

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