The Blind Assassin: A Novel - Brossura

Atwood, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 0385720955 ISBN 13: 9780385720953

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001

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. Winner of the Booker Prize. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"The first great novel of the new millennium." —Newsday

"Absorbing... expertly rendered... Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display." —The New York Times

"Brilliant... Opulent... Atwood is a poet.... as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous." —John Updike, The New Yorker

"Chilling... Lyrical... [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date." —The Boston Globe

"Hauntingly powerful.... A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters... Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade." —The Atlanta Journal--Constitution

"Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable." —The Washington Post Book World

"Bewitching... A killer novel.... Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton... A wonderfully complex narrative." —The Christian Science Monitor

"A tour de force." —Chicago Tribune

L'autore:

Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, her novels include Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood; and her most recent, MaddAddam. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award, and lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson. 

www.margaretatwood.ca

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385720955
• ISBN 13: 9780385720953
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 544