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Atonement: Introduction by Claire Messud
Hardcover
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $35.00
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ISBN10: 037571247X
ISBN13: 9780375712470
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Jun 17 2014
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375712470
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Jun 17 2014
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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) from the Booker Prize-winning author is a profound--and profoundly moving--exploration of shame and forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century
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. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
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