The Blind Assassin
基本信息·出版社：Virago Press Ltd ·页码：656 页 ·出版日期：2001年09月 ·ISBN：1860498809 ·International Standard Book Number：1860498809 · ...
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基本信息·出版社：Virago Press Ltd
·页码：656 页
·出版日期：2001年09月
·ISBN：1860498809
·International Standard Book Number：1860498809
·条形码：9781860498800
·EAN：9781860498800
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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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 before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. 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. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.
作者简介 Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and now Oryx and Crake for the 2003 Booker prize. She has won many literary prizes in other countries.
媒体推荐 ** 'Atwood has never written with more flair and versatility than in this multidimensional novel. A brilliant accomplishment' SUNDAY TIMES ** 'This is Margaret Atwood at her remarkable best.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ** 'Margaret Atwood is one of the most brilliant and unpredictable novelists alive.' LITERARY REVIEW ** 'THE BLIND ASSASSIN may indeed prove to be that most elusive of literary unicorns: the woman's novel.' NEW STATESMAN
