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Atonement Audio Book
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Atonement
Author:
Ian McEwan
Reader: Josephine Bailey
One shattering mistake colors many lives across 64 years, from pre-WWII England to a family reunion in 1999. A remarkable story of childhood, love, war, shame, and forgiveness by the Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam. The Oscar-winning film stars Keira Knightley. "A grand old novel with a wicked spin... Few other novels offer so much magic."—Entertainment Weekly
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Publish Date: 04/01/2006
ISBN: 9781597771009
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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 father fought. (McEwan gives his father, who died just before ATONEMENT was published, a walk-on part.) The story revolves around a disastrous misunderstanding by a young teenage girl, which leads to a tragic series of events that culminate in a stunning surprise ending. ATONEMENT was short-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize. A New York Times "Editor's Choice" for 2002.
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Book Awards:
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Nominated for the
2001 The Man Booker Prize in Fiction |
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Nominated for the
2001 Whitbread Award in Novel |
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Winner of the
2002 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction |
Author Bio:
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Ian Russell McEwan was born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, a military town in southern England. He had two much older half-siblings and considered himself an only child. An "army brat," he spent his childhood in Singapore and North Africa where his father was stationed, but returned to England to go to boarding school and the University of Sussex. He got an M.A. at the University of East Anglia, where in his creative writing courses Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson encouraged him to be a writer. His first marriage ended in 1995 (and his wife, Penny Allen, made McEwan notorious when, after she kidnapped one of their two sons and fled to France, their custody dispute--which McEwan won--became public). He married journalist Annalena McAfee in 1997. One of McEwan's favorite writers was Kafka; he also counts Evelyn Waugh as an influence, and the biologist E. O. Wilson. McEwan is celebrated for his macabre, grotesque, and occasionally kinky fiction. His novel AMSTERDAM won the Booker Prize in 1998, and several of his works have been made into films.
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