Atonement
$22.40
- Hardcover
424 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2014
Summary
Booker Shortlisted best seller Atonement in a beautiful hardback edition with silk ribbon and sewn binding. A perfect gift.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593609 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593605 |
| 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 |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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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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