Surfacing
Atwood, Margaret (, 1939-)
Surfacing / Margaret Atwood - London : Virago , 2002, c1979 - 186 p. ; : 20 cm
Surfacing is the story of an artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Accompanied by her boyfriend and a young married couple, the artist searches her abandoned childhood home for clues her parents may have left. But in the disorienting, transformative isolation of the wilderness, her friends' marriage begins to crumble, sex becomes a catalyst for conflict, and violence and death lurk just beneath the surface. As her relentless probing leads to an electrifying confrontation with her own suppressed secrets, she rapidly descends into what could be either madness or the starkest self-knowledge.
English
Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize
0860680649
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Missing persons----Fiction
Quebec (Province)---Fiction
Domestic fiction
FIC ATW
Surfacing / Margaret Atwood - London : Virago , 2002, c1979 - 186 p. ; : 20 cm
Surfacing is the story of an artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Accompanied by her boyfriend and a young married couple, the artist searches her abandoned childhood home for clues her parents may have left. But in the disorienting, transformative isolation of the wilderness, her friends' marriage begins to crumble, sex becomes a catalyst for conflict, and violence and death lurk just beneath the surface. As her relentless probing leads to an electrifying confrontation with her own suppressed secrets, she rapidly descends into what could be either madness or the starkest self-knowledge.
English
Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize
0860680649
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Missing persons----Fiction
Quebec (Province)---Fiction
Domestic fiction
FIC ATW
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