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"Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery."
- C. C. Colton
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ZIN Product Number: 10091695
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 521 pages
Edition: 1 US ED
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0385475721
Release Date: Jan 6, 1998
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist.
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious.
The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest 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 Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed 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 distinguished industrialist.
Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience. The novel has many threads and a series of events that follow one another at a breathtaking pace. As everything comes together, readers will discover that the story Atwood is telling is not only what it seems to be--but, in fact, much more.
The Blind Assassin proves once again that Atwood is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of our time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, it is destined to become a classic.
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Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize for Fiction.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
An Incredible Achievement
-- A reviewer, March 15, 2002
Wonderful!
-- Ariel, an avid reader, March 6, 2002
Also Recommended: The Red Tent (Diamant), A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving)
Depression Era Skullduggery
-- Jon Johnson, July 8, 2002
Also Recommended: Alias Grace, The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye.
I loved it
-- LM in West Point, March 4, 2002
Entertainingg, sad, fun and mysterious all at the same time.
-- Marla Mayflower, a housewife who reads a lot, December 11, 2001
Also Recommended: The Witness by L. Gray, Her Bodyguard by M. Jerott, Thief Of Hearts by V.T.Murray, Hide and Seek by C. Adair.
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