![]() ![]() Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.Available for purchase at:Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. ![]() 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. Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. The Blind Assassin 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. ![]()
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