| Description |
521 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister'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 |
| Notes |
Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 2000 |
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Booker Prize 2000 |
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Booker Prize winner, 2000 |
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Man Booker Prize, 2000 |
| Subject |
Older women -- Fiction.
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Authorship -- Fiction.
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Betrayal -- Fiction.
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Domestic fiction, Canadian.
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Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction.
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Psychological fiction, Canadian.
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Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
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Sisters -- Fiction.
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Sisters -- Death -- Fiction.
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Widows -- Fiction.
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Women novelists -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Fiction.
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| LC no. |
99462109 |
| ISBN |
0385475721 (alk. paper) |
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