Product Description

Film tie-in edition

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #485 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Observer
`Impressive'

Eve Magazine
'One of the great unrequited love stories.'

The Times
"Atonement is a masterpiece...it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certainties."

Customer Reviews

Brillant story, but rubbishly made
I brought this book and it was brillant. The story is brillant and I liked the way that it had different sexctions focusing on certain events. Anyway, the book did not last long and started to fall to pieces when I had only read a third of it.

Story through a Prism
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
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.