An edition of Atonement (1808)

Atonement

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An edition of Atonement (1808)

Atonement

1st Anchor Books edition (13); movie tie-in

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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.
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Anchor Books
Language
English
Pages
351

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Subjects

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 literature

People

Briony Tallis, Cecilia Tallis, Robbie Turner, Dolores Quincey, Jackson Quincey, Pierrot Quincey, Leon Tallis, Paul Marshall, Danny Hardman, Corporal Nettle, Corporal Mace, Betty, Luc, Emily Tallis, Jack Tallis, Grace Turner

Places

England, Great Britain, University of Cambridge

Times

1936-1952, George 6, George VI, 1936-1952, George V, 1910-1936, 1935, 1939-45

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Expiation
2009-02-24, Gallimard
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Atonement
2007-11, Seal Books
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Atonement
Jul 16, 2007, Anchor Books
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2007, Anchor Books
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Atonement
2007, Vintage Books
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Atonement
2002-04, Nan A. Talese | Doubleday
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Espiazione
2002, Einaudi
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Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2007

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6063.C4 A88 2002

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
351p.
Number of pages
351

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32651385M
Internet Archive
atonementnovel0000mcew
ISBN 10
038572179X, 0307387151
ISBN 13
9780307387158
LCCN
2001044291
OCLC/WorldCat
148996949
Goodreads
44770684

Work Description

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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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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