Atonement: A Novel - Brossura

McEwan, Ian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0307388840 ISBN 13: 9780307388841

Casa editrice: Anchor Books, 2007

Riassunto

In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution. Reissue. (A Focus Features film, written by Christopher Hampton, directed by Joe Wright, releasing Fall 2007, starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave, & Romola Garai) (General Fiction)

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Recensione:

“A tour de force.... Every bit as affecting as it is gripping.”
—The New York Times

“Lush, detailed, vibrantly colored and intense.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama.” —John Updike, The New Yorker

“Luminous.... Atonement is brilliant.”
—Newsweek

“No one now writing fiction in the English language surpasses Ian McEwan.”
—The Washington Post Book World

“McEwan could be the most psychologically astute writer working today, our era’s Jane Austen.”
—Esquire

L'autore:

Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Anchor Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0307388840
• ISBN 13: 9780307388841
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480