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Transcript: Review: Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is up to his usual high standards
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- March 19, 2002
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Review: Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is up to his usual high standards
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
The British writer Ian McEwan won the Booker Prize in 1998 for his
novel "Amsterdam." Our reviewer Alan Cheuse thinks his latest work
of fiction, a novel called "Atonement," is up to McEwan's usual high
standards.
ALAN CHEUSE:
The novel opens on a summer evening in a British country house in
1935. The Tallis family has gathered for dinner, and one of the daughters,
Briony, a 13-year-old girl with a great imagination and a gift for
language, commits a horrible crime, an act that ...