The Blind Assassin

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771008910
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blind Assassin written by Margaret Atwood and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase family secrets. Among these is a novel that earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes 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 a distant planet. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while 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 that comes together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551994941
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blind Assassin written by Margaret Atwood and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase family secrets. Among these is “The Blind Assassin,” a novel that earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, it was a pulp fantasy improvised by two unnamed lovers who meet secretly in rented rooms and seedy cafés. As this novel-within-a-novel twists and turns through love and jealousy, self-sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real narrative, as both move closer to war and catastrophe. Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning sensation combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding tale.

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
ISBN 13 : 2808017324
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Book Analysis) written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The Blind Assassin with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, a complex novel about the power of the written word and its ability to deceive. It is told from the perspective of Iris Chase, a woman in her eighties looking back on the events of her youth, when she and her sister Laura fell in love with the same man: the charming radical and storyteller Alex Thomas. Laura had fictionalised her love affair with him in an award-winning novel that Iris published posthumously after Laura’s suicide, but as Iris unravels the tangled threads of past deceit, it soon becomes clear that nothing is as it seems... The Blind Assassin was the winner of the 2000 Man Booker Prize, and remains one of Atwood’s best-known novels. Find out everything you need to know about The Blind Assassin in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Author : Aileen Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood written by Aileen Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Brooks Bouson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441156321
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood written by J. Brooks Bouson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts.

Author : Sharon Rose Wilson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209297
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations written by Sharon Rose Wilson and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin: The Journey from Trauma to Recovery written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neeru & Anshul Chandra Tandon
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126910151
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood written by Neeru & Anshul Chandra Tandon and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on the novels of Margaret Atwood, b. 1939, Canadian litterateur.

Author : Camille R. La Bossière
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776605704
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Wonder written by Camille R. La Bossière and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 10, 11, 12, i, s, t.

Author : Stella Borg Barthet
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027649
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sea for Encounters written by Stella Borg Barthet and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of 'Commonwealth' literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; 'sharing places' and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart-Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen'ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King-Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López-Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar-Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer-Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.