The Resource The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
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The item The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Glencoe Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: 'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' They are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, sole surviving descendant of a once rich and influential Ontario family, whose terse account of her sister'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 improvised 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 ... The three wonderfully rich stories weave together, gradually revealing through their interplay the secrets surrounding the entire Chase family--and most particularly the fascinating and tangled lives of the two sisters"--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition in the U.S.A.
- Extent
- 521 pages
- Isbn
- 9780771008634
- Label
- The blind assassin
- Title
- The blind assassin
- Statement of responsibility
- Margaret Atwood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: 'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' They are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, sole surviving descendant of a once rich and influential Ontario family, whose terse account of her sister'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 improvised 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 ... The three wonderfully rich stories weave together, gradually revealing through their interplay the secrets surrounding the entire Chase family--and most particularly the fascinating and tangled lives of the two sisters"--From publisher description
- Awards note
- Winner of the Booker Prize, 2000
- Cataloging source
- IDU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1939-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Atwood, Margaret
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.A8
- LC item number
- B55 2001
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sisters
- Widows
- Women novelists
- Older women
- Fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition in the U.S.A.
- Extent
- 521 pages
- Isbn
- 9780771008634
- Lccn
- 99462109
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocm43287739
- (Sirsi) o43287739
- (TMQ) o43287739
- 37003
- 2045518
- Label
- The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition in the U.S.A.
- Extent
- 521 pages
- Isbn
- 9780771008634
- Lccn
- 99462109
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm43287739
- (Sirsi) o43287739
- (TMQ) o43287739
- 37003
- 2045518
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