Atonement

mass market paperback, 480 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2007 by Anchor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-307-38884-1
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OCLC Number:
182807564

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4 stars (6 reviews)

On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's 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. (back cover)

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5 stars

[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

would you believe my 3rd time reading it?! my bookclub choose it, and it's such a fine piece of work, i didn't want to simply remember it when we discussed it - i wanted it to be fresh.

i've not always enjoyed this author - but this book has virutally no throwaway lines or plot points. even the most off-handed comment is so true and bears a moment's wondering. cecilia is home from college - entirely transformed - but her family doesn't see her so, with their former expectations of her so habitual and strong.

briony is a whirlwind of drama at the age of 13, envisioning of the world removed from herself - like the novellas she writes - one moment, and impetutously throwing herself into the fray, the next. …

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Subjects

  • Historical - General
  • Literary
  • Fiction / General
  • Media Tie-In - General
  • Mcewan, Ian - Prose & Criticism
  • Fiction
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