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See more books from this AuthorFamily secrets, sibling rivalry, political chicanery and social unrest, promises and betrayals, loss and regret and memory and yearning are the themes of Atwood's brilliant new novel, whose subtit
Sep 04 2000 | Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINThe Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury £16.99, pp525 Buy it at BOL Margaret Atwood new novel is made up of three strands.
Sep 17 2000 | Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINThe Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 521pp, Bloomsbury £16.99 Buy it at BOL In her tenth novel, Margaret Atwood again demonstrates that she has mastered the art of creating dense, complex fictions from carefully layered narratives, making use of an array of literary devices - flashbacks, m...
Sep 30 2000 | Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINFamily secrets, sibling rivalry, political chicanery and social unrest, promises and betrayals, ""loss and regret and memory and yearning"" are the themes of Atwood's brilliant new novel, whose subtitle might read: The Fall of the House of Chase.
| Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINand her most recent novel, “The Year of the Flood.” Try that one after you test the waters with “The Blind Assassin.”
Jun 10 2012 | Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINA story within a story within a story --- more nesting dolls emerge with every chapter leading up to the finale.
Jan 21 2011 | Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINIn her ingenious new tale of love, rivalry, and deception, The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood interweaves several genres a confessional memoir, a pulp fantasy novel, newspaper clippings to tease out the secrets behind the 1945 death of 25-year-old socialite Laura Chase.
Sep 08 2000 | Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINShe leaps from heights, crashes through walls, and flies through flames that more prudent writers would never dare.
Jan 25 2009 | Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINI also think it might be interesting to compare the way Atwood writes women’s relationships in general, in both this novel and her other novels.
Apr 30 2010 | Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINFocusing on two sisters, Laura and Iris Chase, the novel intersperses newspaper clippings and excerpts of Laura’s sci-fi romance novel with Iris’s memoirs, written over 50 years after her sister’s death and the actions of this novel.
| Read Full Review of THE BLIND ASSASSINbut what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come.’ In Alias Grace – a profoundly disconcerting story of obsession, set in Ontario in the early 19th century, and based on an actual murder case – Atwood deliberately chose to go into the ‘great darkness’ of a...
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