The Heart Goes Last
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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2016
Summary
By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine’s job at a dive bar, they’re increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs and in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience - a ‘social experiment’ offering stable jobs and a home of their own…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349007298 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349007292 |
| Author: | Margaret Atwood |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 56mm x 198mm x 127mm |
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Critics Review
Her eye for the most unpredictable caprices of the human heart and her narrative fearlessness have made her one of the world’s most celebrated novelists
Gloriously madcap … You only pause in your laughter when you realise that, in its constituent parts, the world she depicts here is all too horribly plausible - Observer
The bestselling author who shot to fame 30 years ago with The Handmaid’s Tale is still at her darkly comic best - Sunday TimesWhat distinguishes Atwood’s apocalypticism is her insistence that we have brought it on ourselves. It’s not meteor strikes, or aliens that destroy our world. It’s us … I loved it - The TimesJubilant comedy of errors, bizarre bedroom farce, SF prison-break thriller, psychedelic sixties crime caper: The Heart Goes Last scampers in and out of all of these genres, pausing only to quote Milton on the loss of Eden or Shakespeare on weddings. Meanwhile, it performs a hard-eyed autopsy on themes of impersonation and self-impersonation, revealing so many layers of contemporary deception and self-deception that we don’t know whether to laugh or cry - GuardianAbout The Author
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.
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