ATONEMENT [Signed]

McEwan, Ian

ISBN 10: 0224062522 / ISBN 13: 9780224062527

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2001

Octavo, 372 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with red and white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "£16.99". Minor shelf wear. Interior pages clean. Signed by McEwan on title page. Shelved Hardcover Fiction. 1399841. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1399841

Synopsis:

Jacket has very minor creasing to top of both back and front. Jacket also has creasing to top of spine. Signed by Ian McEwan on title page. Contents otherwise clean, bright and tight. Seventh Printing

Review: Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, think, and experiment.

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: ATONEMENT [Signed]
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First British Edition, First Printing.