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"The novel 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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Death, Muerte, Hermanas, Novela psicológica, Viudas, Fiction, Sisters, Ficción, Widows, Novela hogareña, Psychological fiction, Women novelists, Aged women, Authorship, Older women, Domestic fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Betrayal, Reminiscing in old age, Science fiction, Large type books, Canadian fiction (fictional works by one author), Sisters, fiction, Widows, fiction, Authors, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Man-woman relationships, American literature, Sœurs, Romans, nouvelles, Mort, Roman, Art d'écrire, Romancières, Femmes âgées, Veuves, Roman familial, Psychological, Canadian fiction, Roman canadien, Souvenir chez la personne âgée, Vingtième siècle, Littérature canadienne, Sisters--death, Sisters--death--fiction, Fiction--authorship, Fiction--authorship--fiction, Women novelists--fiction, Older women--fiction, Widows--fiction, Pr9199.3.a8 b55 2001Showing 11 featured editions. View all 89 editions?
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More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal...
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