My Catholic friend tilted her teacup like a fortune-teller. "You know," she said, "I think people who don't have God in their lives are like people...
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Returning to Ian McEwan's beautiful prose provided me a reason to wake up every morning for my early morning ferry commute. Kudos to a literary genius for interesting this reader in WW II-era British emotion and character development. To quote the author himself, "The cost of oblivious daydreaming [is] always the moment of return . . ." All in all an excellent book that I would recommend to anyone.
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Atonement by Ian McEwan
Nick, October 22, 2006
Returning to Ian McEwan's beautiful prose provided me a reason to wake up every morning for my early morning ferry commute. Kudos to a literary genius for interesting this reader in WW II-era British emotion and character development. To quote the author himself, "The cost of oblivious daydreaming [is] always the moment of return . . ." All in all an excellent book that I would recommend to anyone.(30 of 56 readers found this comment helpful)