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 | Atonement "A tour de force.... Every bit as affecting as it is gripping."
Also available in a mass market movie tie-in edition. |
Academy Award Winner: Original Score "Rarely has a book sprung so vividly to life, but also worked so enthrallingly in pure movie terms." --Variety
Now a major motion picture from Focus Features, starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave, and Romola Garai, and directed by Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice). Coming December 7, 2007 to limited cities and expanding to more screens December 21, with a further rollout in January 2008.
About the
Book NATIONAL BESTSELLER
On a 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. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
"Flat-out brilliant.... McEwan's writing is lush, detailed, vibrantly colored, and intense." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama."
"No one now writing fiction in the English language surpasses Ian McEwan."
About the Author Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize. He lives in London. Read more...
Golden Globe Award Winner: Best Motion Picture (Drama)
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
Los Angeles Book Prize Winner
--John Updike, The New Yorker
--The Washington Post Book World