a lifelong quest…

Book review:

Atonement

by Ian McEwan (b1948)

New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2001

351 pages

Atonement is a story of the profound sadness of a child. The sadness is a burden on several lives. McEwan invites the reader to learn to understand the life of a child who learns to understand that atonement can be a lifelong quest.

The child Briony knows she is a writer. She spends most of her life trying to understand how writing can be more than a fancy, and learning how to make it a substitute for real lives.

Briony, mature and nearing her own death, writes the final draft of her regrets for the childish impulse that unmade the lives of her beloved Cecilia and her beloved Robbie.

Briony learns that atonement can fill every space in a life, and she learns that atonement can be impotent.

* * * * * *

Book review: Shakespeare’s Wife

Germaine Greer went overboard a bit…

click here

–

My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,

and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)

and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”