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Atonementby Ian McEwan
AwardsWinner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam, has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives — together with her precocious literary gifts — forces a situation that will change the course of their lives. As it follows that event's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece. Review:"Atonement emerges as the author's most deeply felt novel yet....It is a novel that attests not only to Mr. McEwan's mastery of craft and virtuosic control of narrative suspense, but also to his knowledge of the human heart and its rage for symmetry and order." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Review:"Flat-out brilliant....Lush, detailed, vibrantly colored and intense." San Francisco Chronicle Review:"His most complete and passionate book to date." The New York Times Book Review Review:"Resplendent....Graceful....Magisterial....Gloriously realized." The Boston Sunday Globe Review:"McEwan is technically at the height of his powers." The New York Review of Books Review:"Astonishing....Gorgeous....Bewitching....A thought-provoking, luxuriant novel." Minneapolis Star Tribune Review:"[McEwan's] best novel so far....It will break your heart." The Star (Toronto) Review:"The extraordinary range of Atonement suggests that there's nothing McEwan can't do." The Christian Science Monitor Review:"Magnificent....Suspenseful, psychologically astute and intellectually bracing." Newsday Review:"[W]e are free to linger in the moment, to savor the exquisite, agonizing aptness of McEwan's images and the delicacy of his touch as he records, in fiction, the true horrors of war, and makes new the ordinary realizations those horrors force upon us...." Claire Messud, The Atlantic Monthly Review:"The dust jacket proclaims Atonement [McEwan's] finest achievement, and although publishers are prone to this...view of their authors' talents, in this case they are triumphantly right." Robert MacFarlane, The Times Literary Supplement (London) Review:"McEwan's latest, both powerful and equisite, considers the making of a writer, the dangers and rewards of imagination, and the juncture between innocence and awareness, all set against the late afternoon of an England soon to disappear." Kirkus Reviews Review:"Readers are spared little, yet the journey is worth the observed pain and distress. Well-read teens will find much to think about in this novel." School Library Journal Review:"[A] master of psychologically acute and elegantly gothic tales...polished and entrancing....[McEwan] excels brilliantly at depicting moral dilemmas and stressed minds in action..." Donna Seaman, Booklist Synopsis:McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam, has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation readers have come to expect from this master of English prose. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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