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Atonement by Ian McEwan

Atonement

by Ian McEwan
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  • Mar 1, 2002, 448 pages
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  • Feb 2003, 448 pages
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Chris

I want atonement for the money I spent.
I read this book for my English class and I cannot fathom how it has received nothing but praise. Novels are supposed to SHOW the reader, not TELL the reader, and telling is McEwan's specialty. This is one of the only novels that has actually made me FALL ASLEEP WHILE READING IT, multiple times. And the movie wasn't much better.
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