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ATONEMENT
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| By: |
Ian McEwan |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099429799 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099429791 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
2 May, 2002 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever... |
| Synopsis: |
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever, as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 2002
Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2002
Short-listed for WH Smith Book Awards (Fiction) 2002
Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Fiction) 2001
Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 2001 |
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