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Ian McEwan’s Atonement sets the stage for a lifelong family drama for which Briony Tallis will always desire atonement. In the summer of 1935 amongst visiting family, an unfortunate turn of events finds Briony misconstruing innocent actions that leaves her sister Cecilia’s boyfriend Robbie accused of her cousin Lola’s rape. Briony is forever haunted by the knowledge that she sent an innocent man to prison while her cousin marries the supposedly guilty man.

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Ian McEwan Biographies (2)

Ian (Russell) McEwan

3,911 words, approx. 14 pages

Ian McEwan is very much a product of the new British universities, those popularly known as "plate-glass universities" to distinguish them from the older "red-brick universities" at which writers such... Read more

Ian (Russell) McEwan

5,115 words, approx. 18 pages

Ian McEwan first came to public notice in 1975; he was immediately recognized as an important and new voice on the fictional scene. Along with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, his contemporaries, he is ... Read more