The Blind Assassin - Rilegato

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

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ISBN 10: 0375430857 ISBN 13: 9780375430855

Casa editrice: Random House Large Print, 2000

Riassunto

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. 15,000 first printing. (General Fiction)

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“The first great novel of the new millennium.”
–Newsday

“Margaret Atwood is one of the most brilliant and unpredictable novelists alive.”
–Literary Review (U.K.)

“An example of a writer at the very peak of her performance....As it delves into the kinds of relationships that can exist between men and women and the rich and poor, it becomes a compassionate and utterly honest book. It is profound and touching. It is to be treasured.”
–Edmonton Journal

“Atwood performs a spectacular sleight of hand, fashioning a bewitching, brilliantly layered story of how people see only what they wish to.”
–Entertainment Weekly

“Dazzling and entertaining....”
–Globe and Mail

“The Blind Assassin is quite simply Atwood’s most emotional, yearning, heartfelt, sexy, and elegiac book ever.”
–Quill & Quire

“Atwood has never written with more flair and versatility than in this multidimensional novel. A brilliant accomplishment.”
–Sunday Times (U.K.)

“Boldly imagined and brilliantly executed.”
–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“There is no presence more formidably protean than Margaret Atwood’s in Canadian culture....[The Blind Assassin] will alternately charm and beguile its readers.”
–Winnipeg Free Press

“Stories spin within stories in this spellbinding novel of avarice, love, and revenge....”
–Booklist (U.S.) (starred review)

“A tour de force.”
–Chicago Tribune

“Sumptuous and compelling.....”
–Toronto Star

“The Blind Assassin is the kind of story so full of intrigue and desperation that you take it to bed with you simply because you can’t bear to put it down....It’s one thing to write an accomplished novel; it’s another entirely to spin a tale so brilliantly that the reader internalizes it.”
–Harper’s Bazaar

“Atwood is a dazzling storyteller with a distinctive voice and an ear attuned to irony.”
–London Free Press

“Margaret Atwood is one of the greatest writers alive....A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters....[The Blind Assassin] is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade.”
–Atlanta Journal-Constitution

L'autore:

Margaret Atwood is the author of over twenty-five books, including fiction, poetry, and essays. Among her most recent works are the bestselling novels         Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride, and the collections Wilderness Tips and Good Bones and Simple Murders. She lives in Toronto.

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• Editore: Random House Large Print
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375430857
• ISBN 13: 9780375430855
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 832