The Blind Assassin

By Margaret Atwood (author)

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A 2011 World Book Night selection.

Atwood's Booker prize-winning novel reissued with a striking new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood's backlist. Lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.

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The Blind Assassin Synopsis

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning 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 Assassindescribes 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.

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ISBN:	9781408802786
Publication date:	2nd November 2009
Author:	Margaret Atwood
Publisher:	Bloomsbury
Format:	Hardback
Pagination:	544 pages
Primary Genre	Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Recommendations:	eBooks of the Month