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The Blind Assassin

A Novel

By Margaret Atwood

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| Paperback | 9780385720953

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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 rContinue

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Where women grow on trees

The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury £16.99, pp525 Buy it at BOL Margaret Atwood new novel is made up of three strands. There are the memoirs of Iris Chase, tracing her progress from prosperous beginnings, daughter of a button factory owner, ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Mirror writing

Plenty of novels feature novelists, but few give even a line of the novels that the characters are supposed to have written. A recent example is Reta Winters, narrator of Carol Shields's Unless. Further back, there is Nicholas Jenkins, the narrator o ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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Great, great book, wonderfully written. The irony, the derisory detachment of the old Iris are invaluable! Not to mention the all those hunting ghosts and the disturbing presence of Laura as a child that pervade the book, in spite of her growing up...

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A book within a book within a book. Meta-fiction, dazzling in its accuracy.

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I hadn't read anything by Margaret Atwood in awhile - I enjoyed it. I like books that take a few chapters to figure out exactly what is going on.

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secretninjakt said on Aug 31, 2007 | 1 feedback

A Masterpiece

One of the most cleverly-written, imaginative and enthralling books I've ever read.
The second I finished reading it, I went back to page one and started again: Margaret Atwood is a pleasure to read, not only for the spellbinding inventiveness of the plot, but also for the sheer beauty of her prose ... (continue)

One of the most cleverly-written, imaginative and enthralling books I've ever read.
The second I finished reading it, I went back to page one and started again: Margaret Atwood is a pleasure to read, not only for the spellbinding inventiveness of the plot, but also for the sheer beauty of her prose.
A must read for anyone.

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Marta said on Jul 25, 2011 | 1 feedback

Poetic lyricism

Atwood's language is delicate and beautiful but can be tedious at times.

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Ines Lin said on Feb 27, 2011 | Add your feedback

My favorite Atwood: fast paced, full of mysteries that are slowly revealed forming a perfect canvas, passionate, and quite gut-wrenching. Recommended.

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ilariainthelibrary said on Jun 7, 2010 | Add your feedback