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Format: Paperback, Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Feb 2003
Genre: Fiction - Psychological
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 351
As well as being a superb writer of place, McEwan is also among the finest practitioners of the free indirect style in English, and each phrase in ATONEMENT vibrates with the voice of the character it is so discreetly ventriloquizing....The dust jacket proclaims ATONEMENT his finest achievement, and although publishers are prone to this...view of their authors' talents, in this case they are triumphantly right.
Max is born old: he looks like a little old man. As he grows up, he gets younger and younger. His life is complicated not only by this quirk but by...
The interconnected lives, loves, and relationships of different generations of the McLeod family are revealed over the course of three crucial...
[A] novel that begins with a kiss and absolutely deserves one....[An] elegantly alluring book....One of the delightful things about the way BEL CANTO...
After the death of her rich and shady husband, newly impoverished widow Lillian Manville moves to a small town, where she moves into a farmhouse,...
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I thought this novel was incredibly intelligent and well-written. I was still thinking about this book months after I had read it. This novel will make you think about how your actions affect other people and how one mistake can change lives forever. I really loved this book and have since read all of Ian McEwan's other books (and enjoyed them all!).
I can see how someone would see this as boring. It is the epitome of all things English. Everything is very subtle and you have to really think about what is happening. The pacing of the book is very even and you will be rewarded if you make through, but it is definitely not a page turner, with action on every page. It is nice book about on society and worth a read.
this book was boring. I started reading it, it�s a ny times best seller and all.. but couldn�t get through it. BORING!! Not even really about much from what I got.
Boring as only a British writer can be boring.
I am not going to get into plot details of this remarkable novel. Interested readers can easily find them from other sources. I will say that it is a beautifully written multi-layered book beginning in 1935 in a huge English country house when Britain no so incidentally ruled the largest empire the world had ever seen moves on to the military catastrophe of Dunkirk and ends in the last dsys of the 20th century. Though the plotting is intricate, the characters seemed so alive and the writing so perfect that I, for one, did not lose for a moment. I believe Atonement is a rare masterpiece, and would encourage anyone who enjoys fine literature to read it.