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PLOT OVERVIEW:
Atonement is a family saga novel written by author Ian McEwan and published in 2001. It is about understanding and responding to the need for atonement. Set in four time periods of pre/present/post-World War II England/France, it covers a young upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, and her adulthood in its shadow, which leads her into a reflection on the nature of writing. |
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"She was one of those children possessed by a desire to have the world just so" - page 4. |
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