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McEwan, Ian

Atonement : a novel / Ian McEwan. - 1st Anchor Books ed. Paperback - New York : Anchor Books, 2003, c2001. - 351 p. ; 21 cm.

"First published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape"--T.p. verso.

Wilson's Fiction, April 2003 School Library Journal, June 2002 Library Journal, November 2001 Booklist starred, November 2001 Pub Weekly, November 2001 Kirkus Starred, December 2001 New York Times, May 2003 Kliatt, May 2003

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, misinterpreting a scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her actions.

620L

ISBN: 038572179X

Subjects--Personal Names:
HS - Language A
High school

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940--Fiction.
Teenagers--England--Fiction.
Girls--England--Fiction.
Country life--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--England--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Guilt--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
England--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical Fiction
Movies

LC Class. No.: PR6063.C4 / A88 2003

Dewey Class. No.: / MCE