The Blind Assassin: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0385720955 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0385720955 Global Overview for this book
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Picked this up recently at the Book Thing. This is on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. Enjoy!
From the cover -
The Booker Prize-winnging sensation from the incomparable Margaret Atwood - a novel that combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding narrative.
The Blind Assassin 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 Chase Griffen, sole surviving descendent of a once rich and influential Ontario family, 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 improvised 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.
What makes this novel Margaret Atwood's strongest and most profoundly entertaining is the way in which the three wonderuflly rich stories weave together, gradually revealing through their interplay the secrets surrounding the entire Chase family - and most particularly the fascinating and tangled lives of the two sisters. The Blind Assassin is a brilliant and enthralling book by a writer at the top of her form.
From the cover -
The Booker Prize-winnging sensation from the incomparable Margaret Atwood - a novel that combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding narrative.
The Blind Assassin 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 Chase Griffen, sole surviving descendent of a once rich and influential Ontario family, 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 improvised 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.
What makes this novel Margaret Atwood's strongest and most profoundly entertaining is the way in which the three wonderuflly rich stories weave together, gradually revealing through their interplay the secrets surrounding the entire Chase family - and most particularly the fascinating and tangled lives of the two sisters. The Blind Assassin is a brilliant and enthralling book by a writer at the top of her form.
Journal Entry 2 by 
maryzee
at 2011 BookCrossing Convention in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, etc, Virginia USA on Thursday, April 14, 2011
maryzee at 2011 BookCrossing Convention in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, etc, Virginia USA on Thursday, April 14, 2011
Released 13 yrs ago (4/15/2011 UTC) at 2011 BookCrossing Convention in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, etc, Virginia USA
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This is a 1001 book, and will be left on the BookCrossers only book buffet table. Enjoy!
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This was left on the BookCrossers-only book buffet at the 2011 BookCrossing Convention in Washington, DC. I plan to continue its journey via bookray or RABCK.
Mailing as a wishlist RABCK to rooshill. Enjoy!
Thanks very much! I've got a comfy place for this on Mr. TBR for a little while - to rest from the journey ;)
I look forward to reading it.
I look forward to reading it.
