![]() ![]() ![]() The story - also told in the first person - details a lengthy and clandestine affair between. The novel within a novel gives its title to the whole of the book, a device Atwood also employed in Lady Oracle (1976). By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama. It is to the late Laura that authorship of the novel The Blind Assassin is attributed, with a posthumous publication date of 1947. 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. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. 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. 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. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister’s tragic death. ![]() 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. Atwood creates an astonishing vision with an unforgettable impact- a tale within a tale The Blind Assassin is a story of two unnamed partners who meet each. By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace ![]()
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