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We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama "The Trials of Arabella" to welcome home her older, idolized brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren't up to the task, and directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting prospects of preoccupation come onto the scene. The charlady's son, Robbie Turner, appears to be forcing Briony's sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain and sends her obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to promote his new "Army Ammo" chocolate bar; and upstairs, Briony's migraine-stricken mother Emily keeps tabs on the house from her bed. Soon, secrets emerge that change the lives of everyone present....
The interwar, upper-middle-class setting of the book's long, masterfully sustained opening section might recall Virginia Woolf or Henry Green, but as we move forward--eventually to the turn of the 21st century--the novel's central concerns emerge, and McEwan's voice becomes clear, even personal. For at heart, Atonement is about the pleasures, pains, and dangers of writing, and perhaps even more, about the challenge of controlling what readers make of your writing. McEwan shouldn't have any doubts about readers of Atonement: this is a thoughtful, provocative, and at times moving book that will have readers applauding. --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Seal Books, 2007. Book Condition: New. Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition.Summary: "McEwan''s Atonement .truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past. The middle section of Atonement , the two vividly realized set pieces of Robbie''s trek to the Channel and Briony''s experiences with the wounded evacuees of Dunkirk, would alone have made an outstanding novel. There is wonderful writing throughout as McEwan weaves his many themes the accidents of contingency, the sins of absent fathers, class oppression -- into his narrative, and in a magical love scene." Brian Bethune, Maclean's ". Atonement is a deliriously great read, but more than that it is a great book. There are characters you follow with breathless anxiety; a plot worthy of a top-drawer suspense novelist, complete with jolting reversals; language that unspools seemingly effortlessly, yet leaves a minefield of still-to-be-detonated nouns and verbs. rife with.unforgettable tableaux." The Globe and Mail "What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one''s literary standards should be. a tour de force by one of England''s best novelists. Seller Inventory # 000878
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