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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. rec'd by Kathy   katiemertz | Nov 20, 2009 |  I usually either rad the book or see the movie; I seldom do both. This time I did both, and I'm glad I did. I liked each in about equal proportion. Nicely done on both counts. (  )1  NicholasPayne | Nov 10, 2009 | Briony was a reflective character that saw things through the eyes of a writer. I liked the insight into the process she used to transform feelings into print. It was a shame, that once she created the picture of events, she was unable see the truth. Her belief in her first perceptions stopped her from considering other possibilities. In her old age, as she learns of her worsening condition and the ultimate end she will face with dementia, she completes the novel she began as a child. She writes atonement for her childhood actions, in efforts to see things in a better light. Of course there is no taking back the damage done. Her false accusations against Robbie were realized too late to change everything. Even so she desperately wants to see Cecilia and Robbie happy, to make up for the years of suffering they endured in their tragic romance. (  )1 SFM13 | Nov 8, 2009 | He leído el libro después de ver la peli, que me gustó mucho. No había leído nada de Ian McEwan y le tenía ganas porque había oído hablar muy bien de él. El libro me ha parecido un poco irregular. Mi impresión es que hay un personaje que, para el autor, es mucho más importante que los demás y se nota un poco demasiado. La historia es leeeeenta pero, hay que reconocerlo, emocionante y emotiva. La construcción de la psicología de los personajes (sobre todo de uno) es acojonante. Tiene uno de los finales más impactantes y mejor escritos que he leído jamás, lo mejor del libro. Bastante (muy) recomendable (  ) membrillu | Oct 30, 2009 | He leído el libro después de ver la peli, que me gustó mucho. No había leído nada de Ian McEwan y le tenía ganas porque había oído hablar muy bien de él. El libro me ha parecido un poco irregular. Mi impresión es que hay un personaje que, para el autor, es mucho más importante que los demás y se nota un poco demasiado. La historia es leeeeenta pero, hay que reconocerlo, emocionante y emotiva. La construcción de la psicología de los personajes (sobre todo de uno) es acojonante. Tiene uno de los finales más impactantes y mejor escritos que he leído jamás, lo mejor del libro. Bastante (muy) recomendable ( ) membrillu | Oct 30, 2009 | 
 McEwan is technically at the height of his powers, and can do more or less anything he likes with the novel form. He shows this fact off in the first section of Atonement, in which he does one of the hardest things a good writer can do: engrossingly, sustainedly, and convincingly impersonate a bad one.  McEwan is crafty. Even as he shows us the damages of story-telling, he demonstrates its beguilements on every page. Atonement is full of timeworn literary contrivances--an English country house, lovers from different classes, an intercepted letter--rendered with the delicately crafted understanding of E.M. Forster. If it's plot, suspense and a Bergsonian sensitivity to the intricacies of individual consciousnesses you want, then McEwan is your man and ''Atonement'' your novel. It is his most complete and compassionate work to date. Ian McEwan's remarkable new novel ''Atonement'' is a love story, a war story and a story about the destructive powers of the imagination. It is also a novel that takes all of the author's perennial themes -- dealing with the hazards of innocence, the hold of time past over time present and the intrusion of evil into ordinary lives -- and orchestrates them into a symphonic work that is every bit as affecting as it is gripping. It is, in short, a tour de force. Ian McEwan’s new novel, which strikes me as easily his finest, has a frame that is properly hinged and jointed and apt for the conduct of the ‘march of action’, which James described as ‘the only thing that really, for me at least, will produire L’OEUVRE’.
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We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama "The Trials of Arabella" to welcome home her older, idolized brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren't up to the task, and directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting prospects of preoccupation come onto the scene. The charlady's son, Robbie Turner, appears to be forcing Briony's sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain and sends her obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to promote his new "Army Ammo" chocolate bar; and upstairs, Briony's migraine-stricken mother Emily keeps tabs on the house from her bed. Soon, secrets emerge that change the lives of everyone present....
The interwar, upper-middle-class setting of the book's long, masterfully sustained opening section might recall Virginia Woolf or Henry Green, but as we move forward--eventually to the turn of the 21st century--the novel's central concerns emerge, and McEwan's voice becomes clear, even personal. For at heart, Atonement is about the pleasures, pains, and dangers of writing, and perhaps even more, about the challenge of controlling what readers make of your writing. McEwan shouldn't have any doubts about readers of Atonement: this is a thoughtful, provocative, and at times moving book that will have readers applauding. --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk
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