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McEWAN**, IAN: : ATONEMENT.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

LONDON.CAPE,2001.

ISBN 0224062522.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,8th imp. [Complete number line 8 10 9.,so 1st edn,8th imp.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt b/w photographic stills from film,illustrated dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,but none of the corners are bumped.Top edges the darker toned,fore-edges much lighter toned - a ubiquitous fault it seems,from noticing other listings elsewhere - otherwise they are both generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean,solid and sound. Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain black endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-371pp (paginated) includes half-title+title pages. A much sought after and a very scarce title. Appraised and acclaimed as McEwan's finest achievement."Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood,love and war, England and class,at its centre is a profound - and profoundly moving - exploration of shame and forgiveness,of atonement and the difficulty of absolution". The first part of the novel begins in the summer of 1935 as 13 year-old Briony Tallis attempts to direct her three cousins in a self-penned play to celebrate the homecoming of her adored older brother,Leon.The children's lives should be idyllic in their upper-middle-class, interwar setting,but real-life events soon enrapture Briony more than her play.She witnesses a moment of sexual tension between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner,the housekeeper's son,whom her father has been helping through medical school.Assuming he is forcing Cecilia into something,and later intercepting a letter Robbie sends to Cecilia declaring his lust,Briony decides that Robbie is an evil beast.When her cousin Lola is mysteriously attacked,Briony wrongly points the finger at Robbie,who is arrested and jailed. Cecilia,heartbroken at her lover's confinement and never ceasing to believe in him,leaves to become a nurse in London and refuses to speak to Briony. The second part of the novel follows Robbie five years later,now in the army,as he undergoes the horrors and suffering of the Dunkirk evacuations. In the third,and final,part,Briony becomes a war nurse in London and begins to come to terms with her guilt over what she did to Robbie and Cecilia,now finally together. In the epilogue,McEwan paints Briony as an ageing novelist,revisiting her past in fact and fiction and casting doubt over the truthfulness of her stories,which brings into question the author's struggle to relinquish control over the reaction of his readers.[EF.] Want more Ian McEWAN** titles? For similar and other titles please search my MODERN FIRSTS2, MODERN FIRSTS,1001 books You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues too. View my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue for other books and suggested reading in it. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK and all overseas buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8th imp.
Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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