Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton. Sheerly enjoyable." -The Washington Post Book World During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters. most ambitious work to date." -The Boston Globe Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal. as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous." -John Updike, The New Yorker And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Virtuosic storytelling on display." - The New York Times Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction. "The first great novel of the new millennium." - Newsday But just as the reader expects to settle into Lauras story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel.
ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 15 BOOKS YOU WON'T REGRET RE-READING.
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