04259cam a2200517 4500 234828847 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307428172 0307428176 B0012D1CYW Amazon 00eccd58-e3fd-4e80-90b0-2757cfb1c768 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 450193 OverDrive (Product ID) 6122 450193 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin [Libby] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 838kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p>"The first great novel of the new millennium."</p>. HTML:<i>Newsday</i>. "Absorbing... expertly rendered... Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display.". HTML:<i>The New York Times</i>. "Brilliant... Opulent... Atwood is a poet.... 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.". HTML:John Updike, <i>The New Yorker</i>. "Chilling... Lyrical... [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date.". HTML:<i>The Boston Globe</i>. "Hauntingly powerful.... A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters... Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade.". HTML:<i>The Atlanta Journal--Constitution</i>. "Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable.". HTML:<i>The Washington Post Book World</i>. "Bewitching... A killer novel.... Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton... A wonderfully complex narrative.". HTML:<i>The Christian Science Monitor</i>. "A tour de force.". HTML:<i>Chicago Tribune</i>. HTML:<p><b>The Blind Assassin</b> 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 <b>The Blind Assassin</b><i>,</i> 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. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.<br /> <br /> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee. Governor General's Literary Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:58. http://nm.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=00eccd58-e3fd-4e80-90b0-2757cfb1c768 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/00E/CCD/58/BlindAssassinANovel9780307428172.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=00ECCD58-E3FD-4E80-90B0-2757CFB1C768&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/00E/CCD/58/BlindAssassinANovel9780307428172.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=00ECCD58-E3FD-4E80-90B0-2757CFB1C768&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/00E/CCD/58/BlindAssassinANovel9780307428172.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=00ECCD58-E3FD-4E80-90B0-2757CFB1C768&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)