Blind Assassin
- List Price: $26.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
Description:
Margaret Atwood's latest novel, her tenth, opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.
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Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms of the 1930s and 1940s, "The Blind Assassin" is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience. The novel has many threads and a series of events that follow one another at a breathtaking pace. As everything comes together, readers will discover that the story Atwood is telling is not only what it seems to be, but is in fact much more.
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