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Atonement : a novel / Ian McEwan.
LIBRA PR6063.C4 A88 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McEwan, Ian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940--Fiction.
- Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940.
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Country life--Fiction.
- Country life.
- England.
- Ex-convicts--Fiction.
- Ex-convicts.
- Sisters--Fiction.
- Sisters.
- Guilt--Fiction.
- Guilt.
- England--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 351 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- Ian McEwan, Booker Prize -- winning author of Amsterdam, has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with 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 a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives -- together with her precocious literary gifts -- forces a situation that will change the course of their lives. As it follows that event'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.
- Notes:
- Film tie-in.
- "Now a major motion picture"--Cover.
- ISBN:
- 9780307387158
- 0307387151
- 038572179X
- 9780385721790
- OCLC:
- 148996949
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