{"id":1042,"date":"2012-06-04T09:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2012-06-04T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:58:25","slug":"book-review-atonement-by-ian-mcewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Atonement by Ian McEwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=954\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-954\" title=\"Atonement--by Ian McEwan\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Watonment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Watonment.jpg 184w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Watonment-101x150.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>With summer on the way and time to spend at the beach (park? backyard?), you might\u00a0take along <em>Atonement<\/em>&#8212;if you&#8217;ve not read the book already.<\/p>\n<p>Ian McEwan captures the pre-WWII life of the English gentry. His heroine, Briony, is a child before the war, and an adult during. Could someone, McEwan asks his readers, do something so awful that she can never make amends, never\u00a0atone for her wickedness,&#8230; ever?<\/p>\n<p>[My wife despises Briony with a passion and thinks that she could never atone for her crime!]<\/p>\n<p>The middle section of novel switches gear and covers the Dunkirk evacuation of 27 May&#8211;4 June 1940. Briony becomes a nurse and the remainder of the book follows her life and includes wonderfully convincing descriptions of her treating the wounded in a London hospital. Try it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With summer on the way and time to spend at the beach (park? backyard?), you might\u00a0take along Atonement&#8212;if you&#8217;ve not read the book already. Ian McEwan captures the pre-WWII life of the English gentry. His heroine, Briony, is a child &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1042\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,78],"tags":[68,70,69],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-book-review","tag-atonement","tag-dunkirk","tag-ian-mcewan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}