![]() ![]() As it follows that crime's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece. Ian McEwan talked to John Sutherland at the Cheltenham festival about research and history in his latest novel, Atonement, and about his responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11. ![]() But Briony' s incomplete grasp of adult motives-together with her precocious literary gifts-brings about a crime that will change all their lives. On a hot 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 and Cecilia's childhood friend. National Bestseller 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. May include 'From the library of' labels. ![]() Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan. Children's Beginning Readers/Board BooksĪll pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). ![]()
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