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050	0	0	_aPR9199.3.A8 _bB55 2000
082	0	0	_aLARP FIC ATW
100	1		_aAtwood, Margaret _d(, 1939-)
245	1	4	_aThe blind assassin _c/ Margaret Atwood
260			_aNew York _b: Random House Large Print _c, c2000.
300			_a819 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aSisters _x-Death -- _vFiction
650		0	_aFiction _x--Authorship _z--Fiction
650		4	_aWomen novelists _v--Fiction
650			_aOlder women _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWidows _v--Fiction
655		7	_aPsychological fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
655			_aLarge print books
942			_cMO
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