The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

In her 10th novel, Margaret Atwood creates an elderly woman named Iris Griffen, who looks back on her life life of privilege and wealth in Ontario, Canada. Alongside Iris's story, we read a bizarrely futuristic novel about obsession, written by her sister Laura, who seems to have committed suicide in 1945. The two stories are enhanced by newspaper accounts about these two women and their families over half a century, and by a stunningly unexpected ending.

Editions of The Blind Assassin

ISBN 9780385720847	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 2001	Price $2.49	Very Good
ISBN 9780660190419	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Cbc Radio Canada	Date 2004	Price None Available
ISBN 9780747549376	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Bloomsbury Pub Ltd	Date 2000	Price £1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780385720953	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Anchor Books	Date 2001	Price $1.00	Fine
ISBN 9780385475723	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Bantam Dell Pub Group	Date 2000	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780771008634	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher McClelland & Stewart Ltd	Date 2000	Price $1.00	Used, Good
ISBN 9780864924018	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Btc Audio Books	Date 2005	Price $50.95	New
ISBN 9780375430855	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Ballantine Books	Date 2000	Price $2.99	Used - Good
ISBN 9780613369398	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 2001	Price None Available

Publisher Notes

Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.

Media Reviews

"The novel is largely unencumbered by the feminist ideology that weighed down such earlier Atwood novels as THE EDIBLE WOMAN and THE HANDMAID'S TALE, and for the most part it is also shorn of those books' satiric social vision. In fact, of all the author's books to date, THE BLIND ASSASSIN is most purely a work of entertainment--an expertly rendered Daphne du Maurieresque tale that showcases Ms. Atwood's narrative powers and her ardent love of the Gothic."