{"product_id":"the-blind-assassin-9780770428822","title":"The Blind Assassin","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Booker Prize 2000  The Blind Assassin is a spellbinding novel that spans the decades between the First World War and the present  offering the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama.  For the past twenty-five years  Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin  she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before  creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious.  The novel opens with these simple  resonant words: \"Ten days after the war ended  my sister drove a car off the bridge.\" They are spoken by Iris  whose terse account of her sister Lauras death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Lauras 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.  Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichs of the 1930s and 1940s  The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience. The novel has many threads and a series of events that follow one another at a breathtaking pace. As everything comes together  readers will discover that the story Atwood is telling is not only what it seems to bebut  in fact  much more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646886338613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0770428827","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780770428822.jpg?v=1781680042","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-blind-assassin-9780770428822","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}