Atonement

Name: Atonement
ISBN: 9780099479130

by Ian McEwan · first published 2001

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Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. In 2010, Time magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.

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RevRal · Jan 2, 2010 · Recommends

…Garcia Marquez The Problem Of Pain by C S Lewis Disgrace by J M Coetzee The Road by Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek On Writing by Stephen King Atonement by Ian McEwan Dictionary Of The Khazars by Milorad Pavic Candide by Voltaire The Labyrinth Of Solitude | Life And Thought In Mexico by Ocavio Paz I finished that last one today. Read this: All men,…
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jseliger · Apr 4, 2010 · Recommends

…1900—yet a lot of it is part of the "canon," that I have to put scare quotes around. Do you want to read that, or excellent modern novels that have, in my view, improved on what has been, like Ian McEwan's Atonement, or most of Robertson Davies' work, or Ursula K. Le Guin's better novels (like Earthsea), or Carlos Ruiz Zafon's recent novels (which are very highly plotted and very fascinating), or Umberto Eco's The…
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DanBC · Nov 10, 2018 · Mentions

> film Cement Garden A minor point, but it's a book by Ian McEwan. He also wrote Enduring Love and Atonement (also great films). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cement_Garden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McEwan
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kevmarsden · Sep 14, 2022 · Mentions

I haven't read Machines Like Me, but Atonement is one of my all-time favorite novels. To give you an idea of my general tastes, I'm drawn towards late 19th and early 20th century writers. McEwan's style reminds me of English writers in that period,…
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zzzmarcus · Oct 16, 2024 · Mentions

…Correct! 7. David Foster Wallace – I guessed Gaddis, but this makes perfect sense. Partial credit. 8. Marcel Proust – Correct! 9. Mrs. Gaskell – Correct! 10. Ian McEwan – Partial credit; I guessed Atonement after Henry James. 11. E. M. Forster – Correct! 12. Cormac McCarthy – Correct! 13. P. G. Wodehouse – Correct! 14. Alan Bennett – I guessed Chekhov/Osborne, so I missed this. 15. Jane Austen – Correct!…
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shawndumas · Dec 21, 2010 · Mentions

50. Atonement – Ian McEwan