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The blind assassin / Margaret Atwood

By:

Atwood, Margaret, (, 1939-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Random House Large Print , c2000.Description: 819 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780375430855

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DDC classification:

LARP FIC ATW

LOC classification:

PR9199.3.A8 B55 2000

Summary: The Blind Assassin 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, whose terse account of her sister'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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Large print book	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	LARP FIC ATW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		059094

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The Blind Assassin 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, whose terse account of her sister'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.

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