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| Atonement | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian Mcewan
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 2244
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0099507382
EAN: 9780099507383
ASIN: 0099507382
Publication Date: August 9, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Story through a Prism July 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a massively enjoyable book, but it also reminded me of studying English at university,which I suppose is part of the point.
In structure it is reminiscent of the Virginia Woolf style to which it makes reference. The three differing viewpoints and overlapping of time can be either revealing or frustrating, depending on where you are in the narrative.
The novel hooks into the current popularity of fiction about WWII, which the British pick away at like a scab - nonetheless satisfying for all that. The times and experiences within the novel are conjured well so that the reader sinks comfortably into the surroundings.
A book of fascinating perspectives.
 atonement - disapponting to the end July 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It was hugely disappointing. It is NOT "smouldering with slow-burning menace". It rambles on and on, prattling endlessly, and trying to save the whole thing at the end, as being the manuscript of that annoying little brat now doddering old fool.
The basic story is simple enough, and this story could have been effectively told in a hundred pages. 372 is a major waste of paper, space and my patience.
The figures are flat and two-dimentional, the language pretentious and the aim way over the authors' abillities, it seems.
There is a real possibillity that the film will be ok, simply because the book was awful.
Atonement July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the best books I have ever read.It really brought home the horrors of war to me & left me thinking about this subject for a long time afterwards.This is something I did not expect from the book especially at the beginning when I felt it a little slow. If anyone is tempted to quit this book after the first few chapters I would strongly advise agaist it. I was very sad to finish it.
VERY disappointing July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If this book is the best of Ewan's, I really don't want to read the others, cause this one was really boring, and disappointing. I read it till the end because I wanted to know where it would lead...and really: it gets us nowhere at all. And the little girl, destroying the life of 2 people, wasn't a character I liked at all, especially at the end. I really don't see her action as "atonement", but as a mark of her egoticism, which was obvious even at the beginning. Having read the book, I don't want to see the film!
Disappointed July 8, 2008
After reading all the rave reviews, I was expecting something a lot better than this. The characters seem flat, the plot sluggish and the ending no reward for having ploughed through the previous pages.
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