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Atonement
Ian McEwan
2001
Introduction
Ian McEwan, whose novel Atonement was published in 2001, is known for his stories about dysfunctional relationships. Beginning in what appears to be an English idyllic country setting, where wealth and camaraderie seem to prevail, the author slowly introduces his readers to the darker side of a situation, one in which everything is turned upside down. Innocence is entangled with guilt, and falsehood obscures truth. At the center of this trauma is a thirteen-year-old girl named Briony, the youngest of the Tallis siblings. Briony wants to impress and is eager to call attention to herself. She also uses her broad imagination to twist circumstantial evidence into charges against her perceived enemies. Before the night is over, an innocent man will be marked for life. A guilty man will not be judged. And Briony will carry the weight of her actions and their consequences into adulthood. She will spend the rest of her life searching for atonement, a way to be forgiven for her wrongdoings.
Atonement was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize, the 2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the 2001 Whitbread Book Award. In 2002, the novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named Atonement the best novel of 2001, and the London Observer called McEwan's book one of the one hundred best novels ever written.
Author Biography
Ian McEwan is an award-wining British author, noted for his clear writing style and the dark psychological nature of his stories. He was born on June 21, 1948, in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, but grew up in the Far East, Germany, and North Africa, where his father, an officer in the British army, was posted. McEwan received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Sussex and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia (both in the United Kingdom).
In his late twenties McEwan published his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which won the 1976 Somerset Maugham Award. Three years later, he published his second collection, In Between the Sheets (1978). These stories received a lot of attention for their emphasis on deviant sexuality and dysfunctional family life. In that same year, McEwan produced his first novel, The Cement Garden, about four orphaned children and their struggles to survive. In 1981, The Comfort of Strangers, a story set in Venice, was published. This novel was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize, which is awarded each year for the best novel written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or Ireland.
In the following years, McEwan wrote The Child in Time (1987), The Innocent (1990),