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Blind assassin / Margaret Atwood.
It opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.--[Book Jacket].
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- ISBN: 0385475721 :
- Physical Description: 521 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed. in the U.S.A.
- Publisher: New York : N.A. Talese, 2000.
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| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Shilo Community Library | F ATW (Text) | 36772000103152 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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| Teulon Library | FIC ATWOOD (Text) | 1000006055 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
