The Blind Assassin - by Margaret Atwood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Now in paperback, the Booker Prize-winning sensation combines gothic drama, romantic suspense, and a science fiction yarn in an entrancing novel of uncommon intricacy and grace. "A killer novel".--"The Christian Science Monitor". Author lectures.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i></b> <p/>WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE <p/>In <i>The Blind Assassin, </i>Margaret Atwood weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative. The novel begins with the mysterious death--a possible suicide--of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Decades later, Laura's sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family's history. Intertwined with Iris's account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet. These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The first great novel of the new millennium. --<i>Newsday<br> </i><br> Absorbing... expertly rendered... Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display. --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/> Brilliant... Opulent... Atwood is a poet.... as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous. --John Updike, <i>The New Yorker<br> </i><br> Chilling... Lyrical... [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date. <i>--The Boston Globe</i> <p/> Hauntingly powerful.... A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters... Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade. <i>--The Atlanta Journal--Constitution</i> <p/> Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable. <i>--The Washington Post Book World</i> <p/> Bewitching... A killer novel.... Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton... A wonderfully complex narrative. <i>--The Christian Science Monitor</i> <p/> A tour de force. <i>--Chicago Tribune</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Margaret Atwood, </b> whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include <i>Cat's Eye</i>, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; <i>Alias Grace</i>, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; <i>The Blind Assassin</i>, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; <i>Oryx and Crake</i>, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; <i>The Year of the Flood</i>, <i>MaddAddam</i>; and <i>Hag-Seed</i>. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.
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