The Resource The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
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Resource Information
The item The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in a dingy backstreet room. Set in a multi-layered story of the death of a woman's sister and husband in the 1940's, with a novel-within-a novel as a background
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition in the U.S.A.
- Extent
- 521 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385475723
- Label
- The blind assassin
- Title
- The blind assassin
- Statement of responsibility
- Margaret Atwood
- Subject
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- trueWidows
- trueBetrayal
- trueCanada
- Domestic fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily secrets
- Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Older women -- Fiction
- truePolitical corruption
- Psychological fiction
- trueSibling rivalry
- trueSisters -- Death
- Sisters -- Death -- Fiction
- trueToronto, Ontario
- Widows -- Fiction
- trueWomen authors
- Women novelists -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in a dingy backstreet room. Set in a multi-layered story of the death of a woman's sister and husband in the 1940's, with a novel-within-a novel as a background
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2001.
- Booker Prize, 2000.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2000.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 013456
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1939-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Atwood, Margaret
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- UG
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.A8
- LC item number
- B55 2000
- Literary form
- fiction
- Reading level
- 6.8
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sisters
- Fiction
- Women novelists
- Older women
- Widows
- Label
- The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 385644
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition in the U.S.A.
- Extent
- 521 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385475723
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99462109
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780385475723
- (OCoLC)43287739
- Label
- The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 385644
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition in the U.S.A.
- Extent
- 521 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385475723
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99462109
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780385475723
- (OCoLC)43287739
Subject
- trueWidows
- trueBetrayal
- trueCanada
- Domestic fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily secrets
- Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Older women -- Fiction
- truePolitical corruption
- Psychological fiction
- trueSibling rivalry
- trueSisters -- Death
- Sisters -- Death -- Fiction
- trueToronto, Ontario
- Widows -- Fiction
- trueWomen authors
- Women novelists -- Fiction
Genre
Included in
- trueMan Booker Prize
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2000
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2001
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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