Atonement
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Anchor Books edition (17)
Publisher: Anchor Books; Anchor
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780307387158
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Historical - General; Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: THE PLAY-for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper-was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch.
Description: On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
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