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The Blind Assassin
Reader Score
84%
84% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
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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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Aug 28th, 2001
- Pages: 546
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.25in - 0.90in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9780385720953
- Categories: • Literary• Science Fiction - General• Historical - General
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About the Author
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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What people are saying
NYT bestselling author of THE ATLAS SIX + other SFF, she/her | out now: MASTERS OF DEATH from @torbooks. rep’d by @AmeliaLAppel. I am also @afarolfollmuth
@astridatlas my answer changes fairly often but today it’s The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
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"Tell me where it hurts, she'd say. Stop howling. Just calm down and show me where. But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling." - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood https://t.co/Ld0iPcOjbY
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"The first great novel of the new millennium." --Newsday
"Absorbing... expertly rendered... Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display." --The New York Times
"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, The New Yorker
"Chilling... Lyrical... [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date." --The Boston Globe
"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." --The Atlanta Journal--Constitution
"Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable." --The Washington Post Book World
"Bewitching... A killer novel.... Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton... A wonderfully complex narrative." --The Christian Science Monitor
"A tour de force." --Chicago Tribune
What people are saying
NYT bestselling author of THE ATLAS SIX + other SFF, she/her | out now: MASTERS OF DEATH from @torbooks. rep’d by @AmeliaLAppel. I am also @afarolfollmuth
@astridatlas my answer changes fairly often but today it’s The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha