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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 been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
| ISBN | 0099429799 | | Weight (grammes) | 360 | | ISBN13 | 9780099429791
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Vintage | | Series title | NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series: E Applied Sciences | | Imprint | Vintage | | Previous ISBN | 9780224062787 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 02 May 2002 | | Width (mm) | 131 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 384 | |
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Atonement is a magnificent novel, shaped and paced with awesome confidence and eloquence', Independent .'Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book- A superb achievement which combines a magnificent display of the powers of the imagination with a probing exploration of them', Sunday Times .'He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel', Independent on Sunday McEwan's fascinating and enthralling exploration of the ethics of narrative culminate in not only a wonderful story that is both gripping and heartbreaking but also presents a work of literature that contains detailed, developed characters who immediately, from the first page, evoke powerful emotions in the reader. Using Briony, who is such an emotionally immature, childlike character, as the 'main' character and narrator of the novel is a stroke of genius - it is her childish misunderstanding of adulthood and relationship that leads to such a terrible twist of events. The reader sympathises so closely with Robbie and Cecilia and McEwan has us guessing throughout the novel as to what the outcome will be; even at the end, his ambiguity continues and we are unsure as to whether the couple found eachother or if Briony truly did destroy their relationship, forged over so many years. - Chloe Hasler Write a review
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