margaret atwood the blind assassin review

THE BLIND ASSASSIN may indeed prove to be that most elusive of literary unicorns: the woman's novel. With every year and every novel, Atwood's subjects get bigger.her new novel is so rich thematically and so convincing psychologically. Margaret Atwood is one of the most brilliant and unpredictable novelists alive. This is Margaret Atwood at her remarkabl - Kathryn Hughes, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH The fertility of Atwood's imagination is something extraordinary.The only thing familiar about The Blind Assassin is its technical accomplishment and exhilarating emotional power. A brilliant accomplishment - Peter Kemp, SUNDAY TIMES Adding sardonic wit and characterisation that takes you into the ambivalent intricacies of a personality, this is a novel of extraordinary variety and reach. Read More Read LessĪtwood has never written with more flair and versatility than in this multidimensional novel. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama. 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. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. The Blind Assassin is not a book that can easily be put to one side, in spite of its length and the fact that its twists and turns occasionally try the patience. 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. Chief among these was the publication of THE BLIND ASSASSIN, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. In telling the story of the blind assassin, Iris primarily inhabits three states of mind. 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. The narrator of THE BLIND ASSASSIN is Iris Chase, who is 83, one of two survivors of a wealthy family, the widow of an ambitious conservative politician and businessman, and the sister of Laura Chase, the author of a single acclaimed novel who died young. * Atwood's Booker prize-winning novel reissued with a striking new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood's backlistīy the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACE

Margaret atwood the blind assassin review