March 2009: Atonement by Ian McEwan

The book for the month of March is Atonement by Ian McEwan.  You can find the book here on Amazon.  Here is a review from their site:

The interwar, upper-middle class setting of the book's long, masterfully sustained opening section might recall Virginia Woolf or Henry Green, but as we move forward-eventually to the turn of the 21st century--the novel;s central concerns emerge, and McEwan's voice becomes clear, even personal.  For at heart, Atonement is about the pleasures, pains and dangers of writing, and perhaps even more, about the challenge of controlling what readers make of your writing.  McEwan shouldn't have any doubts about readers of Atonement: this is a thoughtful, provocative, and at times moving book that will have readers applauding.