A Booker Hooker

Ian McEwan won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1998, and now he's enjoying another coveted book prize—a high slot on the national charts. Atonement, from Doubleday/Nan Talese, hits PW's list in the #6 position and has already made four trips to press, bringing the in-print figure to 146,000. The publisher believes it has "the literary book of the spring" and considering the universal critical acclaim, could be right. Atonement has received front-page attention in most every market's book review section—among them, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. McEwan will be crossing the Atlantic to visit New York on April 1 and is already booked for Charlie Rose and NPR.