Atonement: Introduction by Claire Messud

Ian McEwan

Atonement: Introduction by Claire Messud
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
17 June 2014
Pages
424
ISBN
9780375712470

Atonement: Introduction by Claire Messud

Ian McEwan

Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, this beautiful hardcover edition of the bestselling tour de force (The New York Times) is a profound-and profoundly moving-exploration of shame and forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.

By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl’s scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life.

In each of his novels Ian McEwan has brilliantly drawn his reader into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never before has he worked with so large a canvas: In Atonement he takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935 to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941; from the London’s World War II military hospitals to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999.

Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons, coming in September!

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