Atonement ian mcewan book7/7/2023 From his awakening in the early morning hours through the end of this long and trying Saturday, Henry's life is laid bare-every action, thought, and question about life, fate, and destiny is articulated as Henry struggles to make sense of his good life and, more importantly, to see it in a philosophical context. In intensely realized descriptions, Henry's reaction to this event, along with the more mundane events of his daily life, come vividly alive, drawing in the reader who shares the most intimate aspects of Henry's existence. Looking out the window, he sees what he thinks, at first, is the Hale-Bopp meteor, but the object brightens, moves faster, and comes streaking through the skies at low altitude-not a meteor, but a plane on fire, apparently crashing on its approach to Heathrow. In the middle of the night, Henry Perowne, a 48-year-old neurosurgeon awakens for no apparent reason. "It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fates, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance that cause one young woman in Paris to be packing her weekend bag with the bound proof of her first volume of poems before catching the train to a welcoming home in London, and another young woman of the same age to be led away by a wheedling boy to a moment's chemical bliss that will bind her as tightly to her misery as an opiate to its mu receptors." ( Jump down to read a review of Atonement)
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