Ian Mcewan
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Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract. ✨ Atonement. Book by Ian McEwan. Reviewed in The Wounds of Love by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 2002.

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