The Blind Assassin
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- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2019
Summary
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
By the author of THE HANDMAID’S TALE and *ALIAS GRACE*
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 s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349013060 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349013063 |
| Author: | Margaret Atwood |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 122mm x 48mm |
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Atwood has never written with more flair and versatility than in this multidimensional novel. Adding sardonic wit and characterisation that takes you into the ambivalent intricacies of a personality, this is a novel of extraordinary variety and reach. A brilliant accomplishment - Peter Kemp, SUNDAY TIMES
The fertility of Atwood’s imagination is something extraordinary…The only thing familiar about The Blind Assassin is its technical accomplishment and exhilarating emotional power. Everything else is sparkling new. This is Margaret Atwood at her remarkabl - Kathryn Hughes, SUNDAY TELEGRAPHMargaret Atwood is one of the most brilliant and unpredictable novelists alive. - Kate Kellaway, LITERARY REVIEWWith every year and every novel, Atwood’s subjects get bigger…her new novel is so rich thematically and so convincing psychologically… THE BLIND ASSASSIN may indeed prove to be that most elusive of literary unicorns: the woman’s novel. - Elaine Showalter, NEW STATESMANAbout 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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