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| In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution. Reissue. (A Focus Features film, written by Christopher Hampton, directed by Joe Wright, releasing Fall 2007, starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave, & Romola Garai) (General Fiction) |
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Key Information
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| Awards: |
2001 The Man Booker Prize, 2001 Whitbread Award, 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award |
| Authors: |
Ian McEwan |
| Fiction Subgenre: |
Arts & Entertainment |
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Professional Reviews
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Atlantic Monthly: "Reading McEwan's work, we often find it impossible to slow down, so powerful is the pull of 'What's next?' In ATONEMENT that pull lures us through the first section at breakneck speed, and reasserts its sway in the last. But in the second and third segments of the book a strange and fine thing happens: we are free to linger in the moment, to savor the exquisite, agonizing aptness of McEwan's images and the delicacy of his touch as he records, in fiction, the true horrors of war, and makes new the ordinary realizations those horrors force upon us....", New York Times: "[T]here is nothing self-conscious or mannered about Mr. McEwan's writing. Indeed, ATONEMENT emerges as the author's most deeply felt novel yet--a novel that takes the glittering narrative pyrotechnics perfected in his last book, AMSTERDAM, and employs them in the service of a larger, tragic vision. It is a novel that attests not only to Mr. McEwan's mastery of craft and virtuosic control of narrative suspense, but also to his knowledge of the human heart and its rage for symmetry and order.", Times Literary Supplement: "As well as being a superb writer of place, McEwan is also among the finest practitioners of the free indirect style in English, and each phrase in ATONEMENT vibrates with the voice of the character it is so discreetly ventriloquizing....The dust jacket proclaims ATONEMENT his finest achievement, and although publishers are prone to this...view of their authors' talents, in this case they are triumphantly right." |
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Book Editions
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- Audio - Audio Cassette
- Unabridged
- March 01, 2002
- Recorded Books
- 6.25"(h) x 4.25"(w) x 2.75"(d), 0.3 lbs.
- 9781402511783
, - Audio - Compact Disc
- Abridged
- May 01, 2006
- Ingram Pub Services
- 5"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.4 lbs.
- 9781597771009
, - Hardcover
- 351
- March 01, 2002
- Doubleday
- 9.5"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.5 lbs.
- 9780385503952
, - Paperback
- Reprint
- 351
- February 01, 2003
- Anchor Books
- 8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.6 lbs.
- 9780385721790
, - Paperback
- Reprint
- 351
- November 06, 2007
- Anchor Books
- 7.75"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.75 lbs.
- 9780307387158
, - Paperback
- 159
- September 30, 2006
- Prentice Hall
- 8.25"(h) x 6"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.45 lbs.
- 9781405835619
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| Publisher's Note: |
The play--for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crjpe paper--was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch. |
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