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The Booker Prize-winning sensation from the incomparable Margaret Atwood - a novel that combines elements of gothic drama, romantice suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding narrative.
The Bline Assasin 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 descendant of a once rich and influential Ontario family, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 os fp;;pwed bu am omqiest 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 Assassi, it is a science fiction story improvised by two unamed 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 distinguised industrialist.
What makes this novel the author's strongest and most profoundly entertaining is the way in which the three wonderfully rich stories weave together, gradually revealing through teir interplay the secrets surrounding the entire chase family - and most particulary the fascinating and tangled lies of the two sisters. The Blind Assasin is a brilliant and entralling book by a writed at the top of her form.
The Bline Assasin 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 descendant of a once rich and influential Ontario family, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 os fp;;pwed bu am omqiest 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 Assassi, it is a science fiction story improvised by two unamed 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 distinguised industrialist.
What makes this novel the author's strongest and most profoundly entertaining is the way in which the three wonderfully rich stories weave together, gradually revealing through teir interplay the secrets surrounding the entire chase family - and most particulary the fascinating and tangled lies of the two sisters. The Blind Assasin is a brilliant and entralling book by a writed at the top of her form.
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