Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

Blind Assassin

Near fine condition. Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition-2nd printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2). Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine, small nick on the cover) with Dj(two small creases & a nick on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. The book is new with light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages, small mark inside the last blank page of the book. Price clipped. 521pp. Heavy book. First edition. Review:The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood's most ambitious work unfolds--a tricky process, in fact, with several nested narratives and even an entire novel-within-a-novel--we're reminded of just how complicated the familial game of hide-and-seek can be: What had she been thinking of as the car sailed off the bridge, then hung suspended in the afternoon sunlight, glinting like a dragonfly, for that one instant of held breath before the plummet? Of Alex, of Richard, of bad faith, of our father and his wreckage; of God, perhaps, and her fatal, triangular bargain. Meanwhile, Atwood immediately launches into an excerpt from Laura Chase's novel, The Blind Assassin, posthumously published in 1947. In this double-decker concoction, a wealthy woman dabbles in blue-collar passion, even as her lover regales her with a series of science-fictional parables. Complicated? You bet. But the author puts all this variegation to good use, taking expert measure of our capacity for self-delusion and complicity, not to mention desolation. Almost everybody in her sprawling narrative manages to--or prefers to--overlook what's in plain sight. And memory isn't much of a salve either, as Iris points out: Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them. Yet Atwood never succumbs to postmodern cynicism, or modish contempt for her characters. On the contrary, she's capable of great tenderness, and as we immerse ourselves in Iris's spliced-in memoir, it's clear that this buttoned-up socialite has been anything but blind to the chaos surrounding her. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780747549376

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Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin

Bloomsbury Publishing 2000 Hardback, 548pp. "'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge'. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at 18 to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and 82, 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: as Iris says, she herself lives 'in the long shadow cast by Laura'. Sexually explicit for its time, 'The Blind Assassin' describes a risky affair in the turbulent 30s 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. ", (ISBN: 9780747549376). Good.

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Atwood, Margaret,

The Blind Assassin.

NY, Doubleday, (2000). VG lg sz PB. Police say Iris' sister Laura was killed when her car went off a bridge being repaired. Two witnesses claim she it looked as. if she turned the car sharply and deliberately to plunge off the bridge. Beautiful cover of woman in evening dress looking back over her shoulder. Corner creases.

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Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin

Virago Press 2009 Paperback, 641pp. "'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' 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. ", (ISBN: 9781860498800). Good.

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Atwood, Margaret

The Blind Assassin

London: Bloomsbury 2000. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine dust-wrapper. A particularly well preserved copy; tight. bright. clean and notably sharp cornered. Description: 521 p. ; 25 cm. Inscribed by previous owner. Subjects: Sisters --Death --Fiction. Fiction --Authorship --Fiction. Women novelists --Fiction. Booker Prize winner.ISBN: 0747549370.

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Margaret Atwood:

The Blind Assassin.

London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (24cm by 16cm), ix, 525pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (slight creasing of the top edge). ISBN 0747549370

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Margaret Atwood:

The Blind Assassin.

London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (24cm by 16cm), ix, 525pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0747549370

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ATWOOD Margaret

The Blind Assassin. Winner of the Booker Prize. Read by Lorelei King. [Unabridged audio book].

Chivers Audio Books, [Bath,, 2001]. 14 cassettes in one case, 8vo., a fine set. Publisher's code CAB 2068; total playing time 18 hours 29 minutes. Chivers Audio Books are arguably the finest audio books available. The author's original text is unabridged, the readers (usually professional actors or broadcasters) are selected for the quality of their characterisations, the recordings are produced to high standards in Dolby stereo and the cassettes or discs are housed in robust 'diamond' packs. Not surprisingly, used sets are scarce and almost invariably ex-institutional copies. Sets in the present state and condition are very uncommon.

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ATWOOD, MARGARET

The blind assassin.

New York, Anchor Books, 2000. Paperback, 20 cm, 521 pp. Cond.: goed / good ISBN: 0385720955.

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Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin

Virago Press 2001 Paperback, 641pp. 'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' 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. (ISBN: 9781860498800). Fair.

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Atwood, Margaret

The Blind Assassin

New York, Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 2000. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 521 pp, first edition, dj tear on top and wear to front cover, chips on edges Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good/good.

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ATWOOD, MARGARET

Blind Assassin, the

Toronto,: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771008635. Black hardboards / gilt lettering on spine. This is a very nice copy, with slight bumping to the spine ends, of this First Edition copy from Awood. The DJ is unclipped with very moderate edgewear. "The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood's most ambitious work unfolds--a tricky process, in fact, with several nested narratives and even an entire novel-within-a-novel--we're reminded of just how complicated the familial game of hide-and-seek can be." ; 1.81 x 9.37 x 6.38 Inches; 521 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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ATWOOD, MARGARET

The Blind Assassin

London, Bloomsbury. 2000, 1st Edition. Hard, 8vo. Signed 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boardstidy. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. Fading to spine. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Signed.

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Atwood, Margaret

The Blind Assassin

Bloomsbury, 2000. Druk: first. Binding: Hardcover. 521pp. 24 x 16. minor wear to dustjacket, otherwise very good

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Atwood, Margaret,

Blind Assassin.

New York, Doubleday, 2000. 1st Printing. Hardcover., Vg (See Description), Vg/Vg Light Edgewear. Prev. Owner Initials on Dj Flap. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Pages: 521.

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