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Date Posted: 18:25:35 07/08/08 Tue
Author: JP
Subject: Atonement's Letter from the editor

I couldn't help agreeing with Briony's editor that her story was promising, but too long, with too many viewpoints given and not much new achieved. The first section of the book made me feel like Briony had ignored his advice and kept the draft just as needlessly wordy as he had criticized it for being. If she had truly rewritten and revised the story over the decades, would she not have learned to streamline her prose? I guess that a writer (like Briony/you) who is critically acclaimed and adored can afford to not listen to one's editor! The letter from the editor seemed oddly ironic and a little tongue-in-cheek. Were you poking fun at yourself? at editors in general? at this editor? at those of us poor souls who agreed with the editor's criticism?

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