NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author.One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 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--brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime'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.Author: Ian McEwanPublisher: Anchor BooksPublished: 02/25/2003Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.97h x 5.20w x 0.75dISBN: 9780385721790Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.5Point Value: 22Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 66932 / AtonementAward: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - NomineeReview Citation(s): Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2003 03/01/2003 pg. 1BookPage 03/01/2003 pg. 25Entertainment Weekly 03/14/2003 pg. 69New York Times 03/09/2003 pg. 28Kliatt 05/01/2003 pg. 19Commonweal 06/20/2003 pg. 22Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1Commonweal 12/02/2005 pg. 37Christian Century 10/21/2008 pg. 30About the AuthorIAN MCEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
