The Resource The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
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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.
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- 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
- 1st ed. in the U.S.A.
- Extent
- 521 p.
- Isbn
- 9780385475723
- Label
- The blind assassin
- Title
- The blind assassin
- Statement of responsibility
- Margaret Atwood
- Subject
-
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamily secrets
- trueSisters -- Death
- trueFamily relationships
- trueBetrayal
- Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction
- trueWidows
- trueSibling rivalry
- trueWomen authors
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueToronto, Ontario
- Psychological fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- Widows -- Fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- trueCanada
- Women novelists -- Fiction
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- truePolitical corruption
- Sisters -- Death -- Fiction
- trueNovels-within-novels
- Domestic 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
- Summary
- 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
- Award
-
- 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
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.A8
- LC item number
- B55 2000
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sisters
- Fiction
- Women novelists
- Older women
- Widows
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
- Link
- Control code
- ocm43287739
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed. in the U.S.A.
- Extent
- 521 p.
- Isbn
- 9780385475723
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99462109
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43287739
- Label
- The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood
- Link
- Control code
- ocm43287739
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed. in the U.S.A.
- Extent
- 521 p.
- Isbn
- 9780385475723
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99462109
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43287739
Subject
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- trueBetrayal
- trueCanada
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily secrets
- Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueNovels-within-novels
- Older women -- Fiction
- truePolitical corruption
- Psychological fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- trueSibling rivalry
- trueSisters -- Death
- Sisters -- Death -- Fiction
- trueToronto, Ontario
- trueWidows
- Widows -- Fiction
- trueWomen authors
- Women novelists -- Fiction
Genre
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueNovels-within-novels
- truePsychological fiction
Included in
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2001
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2000
- trueMan Booker Prize
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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