Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/09/2005
ISBN: 9780099497042
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 277g
RRP: £9.99
The publication of Atonement cemented Ian McEwan’s reputation as one of the most exciting and accomplished writers of his generation. From its breath-taking opening section, telling the events of a fateful summer’s day in 1935, McEwan unravels a tale of love and war that breaks the heart, even as the master novelist’s provocative twists of form dazzle the senses.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/09/2005
ISBN: 9780099497042
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 277g
RRP: £9.99
Atonement is a magnificent novel, shaped and paced with awesome confidence and eloquence
Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book- A superb achievement which combines a magnificent display of the powers of the imagination with a probing exploration of them
He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel
The narrative, as always with McEwan, smoulders with slow-burning menace. You know that, even as you savour the voluptuous sentences, something terrible will happen and sure enough it does