Atonement

National Bestseller

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 a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives-together with her precocious literary gifts-brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 02/25/2003
ISBN: 9780385721790
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2003 03/01/2003 pg. 1
BookPage 03/01/2003 pg. 25
Entertainment Weekly 03/14/2003 pg. 69
New York Times 03/09/2003 pg. 28
Kliatt 05/01/2003 pg. 19
Commonweal 06/20/2003 pg. 22
Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1
Commonweal 12/02/2005 pg. 37
Christian Century 10/21/2008 pg. 30

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 66932 / Atonement
Reading Level: 7.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 22