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Rent Atonement
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Narrator: Josephine Bailey
Format: Abridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
Published: Apr 2006
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $16.95
Discs: 5
Synopsis
ATONEMENT, which Ian McEwan has called his "Jane Austen novel," is divided into three sections, reaching from the first chapter, set in 1935, to a startling coda in the early 2000s. In between is wartime Europe and a group of nurses tending to wounded soldiers; this section also describes the aftermath of the battle of Dunkirk, in which McEwan’s father fought. (McEwan gives his father, who died just before ATONEMENT was published, a walk-on part.) The story revolves around a disastrous misunderstanding by a young teenage girl, which leads to a tragic series of events that culminate in a stunning surprise ending. ATONEMENT was short-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize. A New York Times "Editor’s Choice" for 2002.
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