Atonement (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Atonement 1 day ago.

• Ian McEwan s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. On a hot 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 and Cecilia s childhood friend. But Briony s incomplete grasp of adult motives together with her precocious literary gifts brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.

Timothy Gray approved 95% of Timothy Gray’s request to combine 67 books, including Atonement, Saturday, October 31 2009. (show what wasn’t approved) (hide what wasn’t approved)

cindy d edited the quotations of Atonement Sunday, October 25 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"No one in her presence had ever referred to the word's existence and what was more, no one, not even her mother, had ever referred to the existence of that part of her which -Briony was certain- the word referred. She had no doubt that that was what it was. The context helped, but more than that, the word was at one with its meaning and was almost onomatopoeic. The smooth-hollowed, partly enclosed forms of its first three letters were as clear as a set of anatomical drawings. Three figures huddling at the foot of the cross. That the word had been written by a man confessing to an image in his mind, confiding a lonely preoccupation, disgusted her profoundly."”Briony Tallis

Timothy Gray edited the awards of Atonement Saturday, October 24 2009.

• Edited an award: Man Booker Prize
• Edited ranking of an award: Man Booker Prize shortlist
• Checked finalist field of an award: Man Booker Prize

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 67 books, including Atonement, Saturday, October 24 2009.

Alina B edited the awards of Atonement Thursday, October 8 2009.

• Added an award: Booker Prize
• Added category of an award: Booker Prize Fiction
• Added year of an award: Booker Prize 2001
• Added ranking of an award: Booker Prize shortlist

Ballroom_Pink edited the characters of Atonement Tuesday, September 22 2009.

• Added a character: Lola

Ballroom_Pink edited the characters of Atonement Tuesday, September 22 2009.

• Added a character: Paul Marshall
• Added a character: Grace Turner

Ballroom_Pink edited the characters of Atonement Tuesday, September 22 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Briony Tallis
• Added a character: Cecilia Tallis
• Added a character: Robbie Turner

maura m edited the quotations of Atonement Friday, September 11 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “"Aquele momento fora imaginado e desejado por tanto tempo que agora não poderia estar à altura das expectativas".expectativas". "Quando ela relatava um resultado feliz, aquele momento em que a batalha terminava e a mãe exausta recebia nos braços seu filho pela primeira vez, contemplando em êxtase o rostinho novo, era um prenúncio tácito do futuro de Ceclilia, o futuro que ela compartilharia com ele, que dava às suas cartas aquele poder simples, embora na verdade ele pensasse menos em nascimento que em concepção".”