• Paperback
• 372
• Atonement
• Ian McEwan
• English
• 14 August 2018
• 9780099497042

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review Atonement Ian McEwan » 4 Summary Download Ó PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook » Ian McEwan 35 McEwan unravels a tale of love and war that breaks the heart even as the master novelist’s provocative twists of form dazzle the sense. Read as part of The Infinite Variety Reading Challenge based on the BBC s Big Read Poll of 2003 The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse In the heat of a 1930s Summer a family reunites at their country home for what may be the last time Cousins have come to stay a sister has returned from University and a brother is returning from America with a new friend in tow Briony the only child left at home is furiously writing a play to be performed but what she witnesses and is exposed to will force her to make a decision that she will regret for the rest of her lifeThis book reminded me strongly of Evelyn Waugh though I think that s purely based on the surroundings and era and mostly the house Whilst Evelyn had a whimsical style to his writing Ian McEwan is positively overflowing with flowery prose that leads nowhere and brings up memories of terrible books they made me read for college Atonement is a relatively easy read if you can take so much description and little plot None of the characters are anything except a piece of personality and don t go beyond their one trait and I felt nothing for all of them They all had their one job and whilst they did this one job well that was that and there seemed nothing beyond their doing their one jobWe begin in a wonderful countryside house which is described to death and the plot simmers along nicely There s a play being written and the cousins coming down from the North are being forced to act it out There is youthful petulance coming of age rebellion and adults avoiding responsibility and in truth the scene is set nicely in the first few pages But then this setting of the scene continues for around half the rest of the book and it soon becomes clear that the plot is far away and we re not entirely sure if it ll be seen at allSetting the book during the war seemed like a pointless endeavour if only to include some kind of treacherous battle scenes to add to the overall lack of drama up to this point I suppose the book needed to be set somewhere and some time but the overall affect was unimpressive I found the whole thing lacking in truth The book whilst it shifted to another city and even country was just too small Everything was cloying and felt like it was happening in one tiny bubble I prefer big worlds and big plots not just a single thread moving through a mireThe main thing that irritated me about this book is that it was full of needless cliffhangers that were seemingly pointless to anything except to expunge the pathetic attempt at a plot beyond the story arc Nearly every chapter ended with something along the lines of and oh my if this character hadn t done what he s about to do in the next chapter then his life would not have turned out the way it did as if McEwan is unsure of his plot and needs to plead with us to keep reading What what Ian what s going to happen I must must must read on if you say something interesting is coming along because so far we haven t had much have we SirI am grateful however at the vague pleasure I got from the book as I read it that kindled within me a notion of the kinds of books I do and do not like I feel having read this book that I could spot a book I dislike from the first few pages now whereas before I d probably have to get through it all just to know So of course I will now not be wasting hours on books that seemingly go nowhere even after the first half than I need toBlog Reviews Instagram Twitter

review Atonement Ian McEwan » 4 Summary Download Ó PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook » Ian McEwan Ting and accomplished writers of his generation From its breath taking opening section telling the events of a fateful summer’s day in 19. Atonement Ian McEwanAtonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement Set in three time periods 1935 England Second World War England and France and present day England it covers an upper class girl s half innocent mistake that ruins lives her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake and a reflection on the nature of writingAbstract 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 centuryCharacters Briony Tallis Emily Tallis Cecilia Tallis Leon Tallis Lola uincy Jackson uincy Perriot uincy Paul Marshall Robbie Turner 2012 1389 480 9789646917446 1390 437 9789644485213 20 2001 15071399

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review Atonement Ian McEwan » 4 Summary Download Ó PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook » Ian McEwan An alternate cover of this version can be found hereThe publication of Atonement cemented Ian McEwan’s reputation as one of the most exci. That I can remember I ve never before disliked the start of a book so thoroughly and by the end gone on to think so much of it as a complete workThe last 23 of this novel are as good as contemporary fiction gets The first 13 is like reading a Jane Austen plot trapped in amberAs the title indicates Atonement is about a future artist s massive effort to redeem herself for ruining the character of a young man when she is a younger girl There are parts of this novel that are disjointed or if they aren t they appear so because the opening act moves so slowly that one is barely conscious and later unable to recall that anything much happened at allHalfway through this novel when its greatness starts to happen a reader almost laments his earlier opinions of it But whose fault is that The beginning is such an act of endurance that the later parts make a reader wish that McEwan had moved things uickly in the beginning and used those words for character development in the middle so the reader could declare this novel uneuivocally one of the five best novels he s ever readMcEwan is at the top of the art form throughout though whatever a reader opines of the product He knows what he s doing every step of the way right down to an allusion to the disjointed narrative methods employed by Virginia WoolfThe ending is brilliant unexpected and harsh But unlike the case of the returning Baxter character in the third act of Saturday this ending is consistent and at once surprising and inevitableAfter a person has read a few hundred novels he grasps the art form well enough to know when an author is writing usually it s when the author s employing some top heavy descriptive techniue that makes the water droplets gathered on a rose petal somehow important than the protagonist s motives for anything she s done to that point and it fairly well cries out Look at me my creator is a writerKnowing when an author is writing means knowing that if there s a surprise coming it s either going to be predicted about 50 pages out or done in such fantastically poor form that its inconsistency mars the rest of the workMcEwan is fine enough at his craft that the ending is both unanticipated and perfectly consistent That alone makes this novel excellent