Atonement
$22.11
- Hardcover
424 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2014
Summary
Atonement: A Tale of Summer, Secrets, and Everlasting Regret
On the sweltering summer day of 1934, young Briony Tallis witnesses a scene she misinterprets: her sister Cecilia’s daring plunge into the garden fountain, observed by Robbie Turner, a friend returned from Cambridge. This moment sets in motion a chain of events that will irrevocably alter their lives.
Cecilia and Robbie embark on a forbidden path, becoming entangled in a web of desire and misunderstanding. Briony, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593609 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593605 |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
| Author: | Ian McEwan, Claire Messud |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 132mm x 26mm |
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He is this country’s unrivalled literary giant … a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel
He is this country’s unrivalled literary giant … a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel
* Indepentent On Sunday *A brilliant and majestic fictional panorama. – John Updike * The New Yorker *About The Author
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
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