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The blind assassin / Margaret Atwood.

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- (author).

Summary:

It opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.

Record details

ISBN: 9780385720953
ISBN: 0385720955
ISBN: 9780613369398
ISBN: 0613369394
Physical Description: 521 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Anchor books edition.
Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2001, ©2000.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The bridge -- The Toronto Star, 1945 -- The blind assassin : perennials for the rock garden -- The hard-boiled egg -- The Globe and Mail -- The park bench -- The Toronto Star, 1975 -- The carpets -- The Globe and Mail -- The lipstick heart -- The Colonel Henry Parkman High School home and school and alumni association bulletin, 1998 -- The presentation -- The silver box -- The Button Factory -- Avilion -- The trousseau -- The gramaphone -- Bread day -- Black ribbons -- The soda -- The cafe -- The Port Ticonderoga Herald and Banner, 1933 -- The chenille spread -- The Mail and Empire, 1934 -- The messenger -- The Mail and Empire, 1934 -- Horses of the night -- Mayfair, 1935 -- The bronze bell -- The fur coat -- The weary soldier -- Miss Violence -- Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The button factory picnic -- Loaf givers -- Hand-tinting -- The cold cellar -- The attic -- The Imperial Room -- The Arcadian Court -- The tango -- The houndstooth suit -- Red brocade -- The Toronto Star, 1935 -- Street walk -- The janitor -- Mayfair, 1936 -- Alien on ice -- The steamer trunk -- The fire pit -- Postcards from Europe -- The eggshell hat -- Besotted -- Sunnyside -- Xanadu -- Carnivore stories -- Mayfair, 1936 -- Peach women of Aa'A -- The Mail and Empire, 1936 -- The Top Hat Grill -- The laundry -- The ashtray -- The man with his head on fire -- The Water Nixie -- The chestnut tree -- Lizard men of Xenor -- Mayfair, 1937 -- Letter from BellaVista -- The tower -- The Globe and Mail, 1937 -- Union Station -- The cubicle -- The kitten -- Beautiful view -- Brightly shone the moon -- Betty's lunchonette -- The message -- The Globe and Mail, 1938 -- Mayfair, 1939 -- The Be rage Room -- Yellow curtains -- The telegram -- The destruction of Sakiel-Norn -- Gloves -- Home fires -- Diana Sweets -- Escarpment -- The golden lock -- Victory comes and goes -- The heap of rubble -- The blind assassin, epilogue : the other hand -- The Port Ticonderoga Herald and Banner, 1999 -- The threshold.