Kate’s 2¢: “Blind Assassin” by Margaret Atwood

“Blind Assassin” by Margaret Atwood

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   If you read the LOC annotation before you read “Blind Assassin”, it will make fore sense right from the beginning. I like the ending, though it is a bit upsetting to know some people can be so dominating and/or evil.

From the WEB:

   Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.

   Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her latest book of short stories is Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014). Her MaddAddam trilogy the Giller and Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013) is currently being adapted for HBO. The Door is her latest volume of poetry (2007). Her most recent non-fiction books are Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008) and In Other Worlds: SF and th…

From NLS/BARD/LOC          :

The blind assassin DB50848

Atwood, Margaret. Reading time: 17 hours, 23 minutes.

Read by Mary Kane. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

General

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This convoluted tale of two sisters begins with the questionable circumstances of the 1945 death of the younger, Laura, at twenty-five. A memoir by Iris, the surviving and now elderly sister, recalls what led up to the tragic event. Interspersed is a novel-within-a-novel, Laura’s posthumously published book. Bestseller. 2000.

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