The Blind Assassin
Autor Margaret Atwooden Limba Engleză Hardback – noi 2009
Ten
days
after
the
war
ended,
my
sister
Laura
drove
a
car
off
a
bridge.
Thus
beginsThe
Blind
Assassin,
Margaret
Atwood's
Booker
Prize-winning
novel.
Laura
Chase's
older
sister
Iris,
married
at
eighteen
to
a
politically
prominent
Industrialist
but
now
poor
and
eighty-two,
is
living
in
Port
Ticonderoga,
a
town
dominated
by
their
once-prosperous
family
before
the
First
War.
While
coping
with
her
unreliable
body,
Iris
reflects
on
her
far
from
exemplary
life,
in
particular
the
events
surrounding
her
sister's
tragic
death.
Chief
among
these
was
the
publication
ofThe
Blind
Assassin,
a
novel
which
earned
the
dead
Laura
Chase
not
only
notoriety
but
also
a
devoted
cult
following:
as
Iris
says,
she
herself
lives
'in
the
long
shadow
cast
by
Laura'.
Sexually
explicit
for
its
time,The
Blind
Assassindescribes
a
risky
affair
in
the
turbulent
thirties
between
a
wealthy
young
woman
and
a
man
on
the
run.
During
their
secret
meetings
in
rented
rooms,
the
lovers
concoct
a
pulp
fantasy
set
on
the
Planet
Zycron.
As
the
invented
story
twists
through
love
and
sacrifice
and
betrayal,
so
does
the
real
one,
as
events
in
both
move
closer
to
war
and
catastrophe.
By
turns
lyrical,
outrageous,
formidable,
compelling
and
funny,
this
is
a
novel
filled
with
deep
humour
and
dark
drama.
It
is
Margaret
Atwood
at
her
breathtaking
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408802786
ISBN-10: 1408802783
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.96 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408802783
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.96 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Published
to
coincide
with
Margaret
Atwood's
70thbirthday,
as
part
of
a
series
of
seven
special
editions
of
Margaret
Atwood's
best
work
to
date:Surfacing,
The
Handmaid's
Tale,
Cat's
Eye,
The
Robber
Bride,
Alias
Grace,
The
Blind
AssassinandOryx
and
Crake
Notă biografică
Margaret
Atwood
is
the
author
of
more
than
thirty
books
of
fiction,
poetry
and
critical
essays.
In
addition
to
the
classicThe
Handmaid's
Tale,
her
novels
includeCat's
Eye,
which
was
shortlisted
for
the
Booker
Prize,Alias
Grace,
which
won
the
Giller
Prize
in
Canada
and
the
Premio
Mondello
in
Italy,The
Blind
Assassin,
winner
of
the
2000
Booker
Prize,
andOryx
and
Crake,
shortlisted
for
the
Man
Booker
Prize
in
2003.
Her
latest
novel,The
Year
of
the
Flood,
is
published
by
Bloomsbury
in
September
2009.
She
was
awarded
the
Prince
of
Asturias
Prize
for
Literature
in
2008.
Margaret
Atwood
lives
in
Toronto,
Canada.
Recenzii
'Atwood
has
never
written
with
more
flair
and
versatility
than
in
this
multi-dimensional
novel
...
a
novel
of
extraordinary
variety
and
reach
...
a
brilliant
accomplishment'
'The fertility of Atwood's imagination is something extraordinary ... This is Margaret Atwood at her remarkable best ... exhilarating emotional power'
'Margaret Atwood is one of the most brilliant and unpredictable novelists alive'
'The Blind Assassinmay indeed prove to be that most elusive of literary unicorns: the woman's novel.'
'The fertility of Atwood's imagination is something extraordinary ... This is Margaret Atwood at her remarkable best ... exhilarating emotional power'
'Margaret Atwood is one of the most brilliant and unpredictable novelists alive'
'The Blind Assassinmay indeed prove to be that most elusive of literary unicorns: the woman's novel.'
Descriere
Seven
special
editions
of
Margaret
Atwood's
finest
novels,
published
to
celebrate
her
70thbirthday