Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
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Atonement is a novel written by Ian McEwan and published by Jonathan Cape in 2001. It tells the story of aspiring author Briony and the consequences of the discovery she makes and reveals as a 13-year-old.
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Awards
- 2001-Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist)
- 2001-James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist)
- 2001-Whitbread Novel Award (shortlist)
- 2002-Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) (shortlist)
- 2002-WH Smith Award for Fiction (shortlist)
- 2002-WH Smith Literary Award
- 2003-National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (USA)
Adaptations
- 2007, August 29 (Venice Film Festival)-UK film by Working Title Films, directed by Joe Wright, written by Ian McEwan (novel) and Christopher Hampton (screenplay), starring Keira Knightley, Vanessa Redgrave, James McAvoy (Germany: 8 November 2007).
Further Reading
- D'Hoker, Elke. "Confession and Atonement in Contemporary Fiction: J. M. Coetzee, John Banville, and Ian McEwan." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 48:1 (2006 Fall), pp. 31-43.
- Finney, Brian. English Fiction since 1984: Narrating a Nation. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Hidalgo, Pilar. "Memory and Storytelling in Ian McEwan's Atonement." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46:2 (2005 Winter), pp. 82-91.
- Harold, James. "Narrative Engagement with Atonement and The Blind Assassin." Philosophy and Literature 29:1 (2005 Apr), pp. 130-45.
- Tönnies, Merle. "A New Self-Conscious Turn at the Turn of the Century? Postmodernist Metafiction in Recent Works by 'Established' British Writers." Anglistik und Englischunterricht 66 (2005), pp. 57-82.
- Neumann, Fritz-Wilhelm. "'The artifice of fiction can be taken for granted': Pragmatische Epistemologie und Moral in Ian McEwans historischem Roman Atonement." Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch im Auftrage der Görres-Gesellschaft 46 (2005), pp. 331-46.
- Birrer, Doryjane. "'What Are Novelists For?': Writing and Rewriting Reality from Woolf to McEwan." Kukil, Karen V. (ed. and introd.). Woolf in the Real World. Northampton, MA: Clemson University Digital, 2005. pp. 165-70.
- Phelan, James. "Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Ian McEwan's Atonement." Phelan, James (ed. and introd.) Rabinowitz, Peter J. (ed. and introd.). A Companion to Narrative Theory. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. 33. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. 322-36.
- Tabakowska, Elzbieta. "Iconicity as a Function of Point of View." Maeder, Costantino (ed., preface, and introd.) Fischer, Olga (ed., preface, and introd.) Herlofsky, William J. (ed., preface, and introd.). Outside-In-Inside-Out: Iconicity in Language and Literature 4. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins, 2005. 375-87.
- Finney, Brian. "Briony's Stand against Oblivion: The Making of Fiction in Ian McEwan's Atonement." Journal of Modern Literature 27:3 (2004 Winter), pp. 68-82.
- Ingersoll, Earl G. "Intertextuality in L. P. Hartley's The Go-Between and Ian McEwan's Atonement." Forum for Modern Language Studies 40:3 (2004 July), pp. 241-58.
- Blakey, Vermeule. "God Novels." Richardson, Alan (ed.) Spolsky, Ellen (ed. and preface). The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2004. pp. 147-65.
- Apstein, Barbara. "Ian McEwan's Atonement and 'The Techniques of Mrs. Woolf'." Virginia Woolf Miscellany 64 (2003 Fall-Winter), pp. 11-12.
- Wolf, Werner. "Ian McEwans 'Atonement' als Synthese aktueller Trends im englischen Erzählen der Gegenwart." Sprachkunst: Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft 32:2 (2001), pp. 291-311.
