The Blind Assassin

Atwood, Margaret

ISBN 10: 0007113609 ISBN 13: 9780007113606

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2000

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‘...Superb reading by Lorelei King enable(s) a smoooth, easily distinguishable transition between readings from Laura’s novel, the present day of Iris’s life; and memories of her dead sister. More important, is the ability of King to allow the listener to hear the author’s voice and her message instead of that of the reader.’ Kim Bunce, The Observer.

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‘Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.’ Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood’s new novel. Laura Chase’s older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While bewailing her unreliable body and deriding those who try to help her, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life and her perilous times, but in particular on the events surrounding her sister’s tragic early death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase a dollop of notoriety as well as a cult following: as Iris says, she herself lives ‘in the long shadow cast by Laura’. Sexually explicit for its time and place, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a left-leaning man on the run.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0007113609
• ISBN 13: 9780007113606
• Einband: Casete de audio