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'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' Thus begins THE BLIND ASSASSIN, Margaret Atwood's stunning new novel. Laura ...Show synopsis'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' Thus begins THE BLIND ASSASSIN, Margaret Atwood's stunning new 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 the Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one, as 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.Hide synopsis
Description:Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn...Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 544 p.
Description:Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 544 p....Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 544 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections.
Description:Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn...Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 544 p.
Description:Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn...Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 544 p.
Description:Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn...Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 544 p.
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This book is for people who like a book to be brilliantly written. It's description and characters are second to non. The story itself is set out like a cryptic jigsaw that all becomes apparent once it is pieced together. You don't get much better than this.
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I was mesmerized by this book. I generally don't like Margaret Atwood, mostly because I find the whole "oppressed woman" genre tiresome. I think this book was also an "Oprah's book pick," which is usually another bad sign. So the book had two strikes against it before I even cracked it open, but I ...
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