E-book
The blind assassin
Record details
- ISBN: 9781551994949 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1551994941 (electronic bk.)
-
Physical Description:
remote
1 online resource - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Emblem Editions, 2001.
Content descriptions
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from READ title page (Overdrive, viewed Feb. 28, 2014) |
Search for related items by subject
| Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. |
Other Formats and Editions
- Baker & Taylor
In an imaginative, multi-layered novel, Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, Laura, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, a wealthy industrialist whose body is found aboard a sailboat, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room. Winner of the Booker Prize. Reprint. 300,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
âTen days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.â 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 sisterâs death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase family secrets. Among these is âThe Blind Assassin,â 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 Atwoodâs Booker Prize-winning sensation combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding tale.
