The play, for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe 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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Atonement
A Novel
First Anchor Books Edition (11)
by Ian McEwan
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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.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the 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.
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historical romance, Dunkirk Evacuation, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2002, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, Psychological fiction, Teenage girls, Fiction, Atonement, Ex-convicts, Sisters, Domestic fiction, Life change events, Country life, Guilt, open_syllabus_project, World War, 1939-1945, History, Family, Teenagers, False testimony, Historical fiction, Girls, Fictional Works [Publication Type], Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940, Fictional Works, England, fiction, Sisters, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Fiction, family life, Judicial error, Large type books, Fiction, general, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Sagas, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Romans, Adolescents, Romans, nouvelles, Sœurs, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, romance, historical, general, English literaturePeople
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Atonement: A Novel
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Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.
Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. In 2010, Time magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.
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