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Atonement
Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
ATONEMENT, which Ian McEwan has called his "Jane Austen novel," is divided into three sections, reaching from the first chapter, set in 1935, to a startling coda in the early 2000s. In between is wartime Europe and a group of nurses tending to wounded soldiers; this section also describes the aftermath of the battle of Dunkirk, in which McEwan's...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780099438045
ISBN-10: 0099438046
Publication Date: 5/2/2002
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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I was haunted by this book. I loved it. It left me feeling a bit empty after finishing it, because I did not want it to end.

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I was really surprised at how much I disliked this book. It's one of those rarities where the movie was more enjoyable to me than the book. I couldn't even finish it because it just dragged on and on and the author was so redundant about the little girl and her fixation on her writings that it just bored me to tears.
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A family story. A love story. A war story. All presented in rich descriptions of thoughts and deeds.


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