Intertwined tales of love, betrayal, and secrets.
"The Blind Assassin" is a rich tapestry of narratives that weaves together a haunting historical tale with a mysterious sci-fi story within a story. Margaret Atwood's skillful prose reveals the complexities of two sisters' lives, riddled with secrets that unravel with every chapter. If you appreciate a novel that challenges you to piece together fragmented memories and intertextual puzzles, the depths of this Booker Prize-winning book will not disappoint.
- Booker Prize (2000)
- Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2001)
- Hammett Prize (2000)
- Puddly Award for New Novel (2001)
- Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
ISBN: 9780747549376
Authors:
Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Date of Publication: 2000-10-02
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections:
Historical Fiction,
Mystery/Crime/Thriller,
Science Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.96
(rated by 159631 readers)
Description
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off the bridge. Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood's stunning novel. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following: as Iris says, she herself lives 'in the long shadow cast by Laura'. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama. It is Margaret Atwood at her breathtaking best.
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Intertwined tales of love, betrayal, and secrets.
"The Blind Assassin" is a rich tapestry of narratives that weaves together a haunting historical tale with a mysterious sci-fi story within a story. Margaret Atwood's skillful prose reveals the complexities of two sisters' lives, riddled with secrets that unravel with every chapter. If you appreciate a novel that challenges you to piece together fragmented memories and intertextual puzzles, the depths of this Booker Prize-winning book will not disappoint.
- Booker Prize (2000)
- Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2001)
- Hammett Prize (2000)
- Puddly Award for New Novel (2001)
- Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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