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Sep 20, 2001 · 3.94. 529,892 ratings23,535 reviews. 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.
Mar 25, 2002 · Atonement By Ian McEwan (Doubleday, 400 pp., $26) Ian McEwan is one of the most gifted literary storytellers alive—where storytelling means kinesis, momentum, prowl, suspense, charge.
Mar 19, 2002 · BOOK REVIEW. by J.D. Salinger. McEwan’s latest, both powerful and equisite, considers the making of a writer, the dangers and rewards of imagination, and the juncture between innocence and awareness, all set against the late afternoon of an England soon to disappear.
Mar 7, 2002 · The Books of The Times review on March 7, 2002, about ''Atonement,'' by Ian McEwan, misidentified the time period in the novel when the character Briony's stint as a nurse trainee in World War II...
Feb 24, 2002 · Ian McEwan, whose novels have tended to be short, smart, and saturnine, has produced a beautiful and majestic fictional panorama, “Atonement” (Doubleday; $26).
Mar 1, 2002 · Atonement is Ian McEwan’s finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, the novel is at its center a profound–and profoundly moving–exploration of shame and forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
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.
Mar 8, 2009 · The extraordinary range of Atonement suggests that there's nothing McEwan can't do. The story opens on a sweltering day at the ugly Gothic estate of Emily Tallis and her...
This quote is one of the focal points of Ian McEwan’s book, Atonement, written in 2001. The novel tells a story in which a tragic misunderstanding will upset the life of an entire family. The main themes are reality versus fiction, awareness and innocence, social classes, guilt, and the power of writing to heal wounds.
Mar 1, 2002 · There are currently 17 reader reviews for Atonement. Order Reviews by: Write your own review! Marilou Sprang. Atonement is a fantastic and addicting novel that is full of surprising twists and turns. It presents the power of the human imagination and what can happen when our imaginations run wild.
