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Atonement

Ian Russell McEwan, (born June 21, 1948, Aldershot, England), British novelist, short-story

writer, and screenwriter whose restrained, refined prose style accentuates the horror of his dark

humor and perverse subject matter.

He is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels Atonement and The

Comfort of Strangers, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Amsterdam, winner of the Booker

Prize, and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the short story

collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the

Sheets. He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the

libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.

Atonement is the eleventh book written by Ian McEwan. It was published in 2001 and won the

W.H. Smith Literary Award in 2002, the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award in 2003,

the L.A. Times Prize for Fiction in 2003, and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel in 2004.

It was also made into an award winning film in 2007 directed by Joe Wright and starring James

McAvoy and Keira Knightley. "Atonement" is by far McEwan's most recognized piece of

fiction. It is a story about love, guilt, shame, forgiveness, war, social class, identity, and loss of

innocence. Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and

forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come

to expect from this master of English prose. It follows Briony Tallis, who, on a hot summer day

in the 1935 upper class countryside, witness’s events between her holder sister Cecilia and the

son of her father's housemaids Robbie Turner. Briony's innocence gives way to a

misinterpretation of what she sees, triggering an imagination to run wild and leading to an

unspeakable crime that changes all of their lives.The novel revolves at Briony's searching for her

own identity, on what she has done, and forgiveness in her heart where runs through the chais

and horror of World War II.

Toxicology

Jessica Hagedorn was born in 1949, and raised in the Philippines. At the age of 14 she moved

from Manila to San Francisco, were she became a protege of poet and translator Kenneth

Rexroth. Hagedorn's work includes poetry, prose, performance art, and music. For 10 years she

was the lead singer and songwriter of the Gangster Choir band. Her multi-media theatre pieces

include "Holy Food," "Teenytown," "Mango Tango," and "Airport Music." Her first novel,

Dogeaters, published in 1990, received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus

Foundation, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. In addition to Dogeaters, Jessica

Hagedorn's books include a collection of poetry and short prose, Danger and Beauty, which

combines the work from two previously published collections of poetry and short prose,

Dangerous Music, and Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions. Jessica Hagedorn is also the Editor of

Charlie Chan is Dead, a groundbreaking anthology of Asian American writing. Her novels

include Toxicology, Dream Jungle, The Gangster Of Love, and Dogeaters, winner of the

American Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award.

Toxicology falls into the genre of New York novels. It is filled with impossibly sophisticated,

jaded, multisexual, often kinky and partly self-destructive characters living lives too fast for

normal humans to safely partake of. But you would be hard put to find a New York novel that's

more fun to read, or more memorable, than this one.

Her ferociously entertaining new novel, Toxicology, centers on two women who are neighbors in

Manhattan’s West Village. Mimi smith, a filmmaker whose only screen credit is a low-budget

slasher movie, finds herself desperate need of resuscitation for both her career and her

downwardly spiraling life. Her neighbor, Eleanor Delacroix, is a legendary, scandalous literary

figure, now nearing eighty and addicted to cocaine and alcohol.

Sources:

ATONEMENT

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ian-McEwan

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/sep/22/fiction.ianmcewan

TOXICOLOGY

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hagedorn/about.htm

https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Toxicology-by-Jessica-Hagedorn-

2373622.php