Atonement

What is the style of book?

What points can be made on the book in terms of imagery, language features and the narrative viewpoints found?

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This novel is written in the third person, sixty years after the events of the novel take place. Parts of the novel are written as a postscript (an event in the present), by the time we arrive at the 3rd part of the novel we become certain that it is autobiographical.

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The first part of the novel shares elements of gothic fiction; the second part - historical fiction; the ending is ironic and postmodern