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Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional 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.
Atonement, novel by Ian McEwan, published in 2001. An Academy Award -winning film version of the story appeared in 2007. Begun as a science fiction story but then abandoned, Atonement took mature form as a work of literary fiction composed of three distinct stories.
Sep 20, 2001 · Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement. 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 ...
Atonement, Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel spanning over sixty years, is a work of metafiction, or fiction that alludes to its own artificiality to emphasize and encourage readers to think about the nature of fiction. The novel intertwines a tale of grand romance, the horrors of World War II, and the destruction caused by a young girl’s mistake.
Atonement is the story of how a young girl’s desire to be an adult, in addition to a vivid imagination, leads her to make a partially innocent mistake that has devastating consequences. The novel explores the distinction between childhood and adulthood, the nature of perspective, the pull of regret, and, perhaps most explicitly, the power of ...
Feb 25, 2003 · See all formats and editions. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author.
May 20, 2003 · NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we...
Atonement is Ian McEwan's finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war. England and class, it is at its center a profound-and...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author.
Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, think, and experiment.
- Ian McEwan
