Summary
"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Ribbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sis... Full description
Summary: |
"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Ribbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of the day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony will have comitted a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life. Atonement is at its center a profound-- and profundly moving-- expoloration of shame and forgiveness, and the difficulty in absolution" -- from publisher's web site. |
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Item Description: |
Compact discs. Abridged. |
Physical Description: |
5 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
ISBN: |
1597771007 9781597771009 |
Author Notes: |
He has won numerous awards including the 1976 Somerset Maugham Award for First Love, Last Rites; the 1987 Whitbread Novel Award and the 1993 Prix FĂ©mina Etranger for The Child in Time; the 1998 Booker Prize for Fiction for Amserdam; the 2002 W. H. Smith Literary Award, the 2003 National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, the 2003 Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction, and the 2004 Santiago Prize for the European Novel for Atonement; and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Saturday. (Bowker Author Biography) |