Ian McEwan — Atonement

London, Jonathan Cape, 2001 . First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of Ian McEwan's poignant novel set across three time periods. Signed by the author to the title page. First edition, fifth impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Atonement chronicles a crime and its consequences over 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England. It covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction and adapted into a BAFTA and Academy Award-winning film in 2007. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth and dust wrapper are lovely, with only a hint of shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with author's signature to the title page. Contemporary gift inscription to the half title. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.