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The blind assassin

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. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death.

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  • "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. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death."@en
  • "Iris Chase is a lonely old woman who reflects on her life and on that of her long-deceased sister, Laura. Laura's novel, The Blind Assassin, won a cult following in the pre-war years with its sexual frankness, science fiction segments, and story-within-a-story technique. Spanning over decades, through war, turmoil and loss, the interconnected narratives spin a tale of devotion and deceit."@en
  • "A story within a story in which the memoir of World War II era button heiress Iris Chase alternates with a science fiction romance about a blind killer who falls in love with a mute virgin."
  • "A science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in a dingy backstreet room. Set in a multi-layered story of the death of a woman's sister and husband in the 1940's, with a novel-within-a novel as a background."@en
  • "Using a novel within a novel technique Margaret Atwood tells the story of two sisters, Iris and Laura Chase. Iris who is now elderly describes her life as it is now and the life that she and her sister led as they were growing up. Interspersed between those two naratives is a fictional story of two lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms and create a science fiction story titled The Blind Assassin. Gradually, it becomes clear that the fictional story of the lovers and Iris' account are intertwined."@en
  • ""Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge". These words are spoken by Iris, whose account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental."
  • "Unabridged."
  • ""Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." These words 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. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact."
  • "These words 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."@en
  • "These words 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."
  • "This novel centers on Iris Chase, and her sister Laura, who committed suicide shortly after World War II ended. Now an old woman, Iris recalls the events and relationships of her childhood, youth and middle age, as well as her unhappy marriage to a rival of her industrialist father."
  • ""Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." Thus begins this 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. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death."@en
  • "A woman's novel of illicit love mirrors many of the twists and turns of small town life during the thirties and forties, and many years later the woman's older sister recalls the novel and the events leading up to her sister's suicide shortly after the end of the war."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Talking books"@en

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  • "The blind assassin"@en
  • "The blind assassin"
  • "The Blind assassin"
  • "Blind Assassin"

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