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The Blind Assassin 

The Blind Assassin (2000)
A novel by Margaret Atwood

 
Awards
Orange Prize for Fiction (nominee)
The Man Booker Prize
Even now, at the age of 82, Iris lives in the shadow cast by her younger sister Laura. Now poor and trying to cope with a failing body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death and the novel which earned her such notoriety."It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward," writes Margaret Atwood, towards the end of her impressive and complex new novel, The Blind Assassin. It's a melancholic account of why writers write--and readers read--and one that frames the different lives told through this book. The Blind Assassin is (at least) two novels. At the end of her life, Iris Griffen takes up her pen to record the secret history of her family, the romantic melodrama of its decline and fall between the two World Wars. Conjuring a world of prosperity and misery, marriage and loneliness, the central enigma of Iris's tale is the death of her sister, Laura Chase, who "drove a car off a bridge" at the end of the Second World War. Suicide or accident? The story gradually unfolds, interspersed with sketches of Iris's present-day life--confined by age and ill-health--and a second novel, The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase. Allowing a glimpse into a clandestine love affair between a privileged young woman and a radical "agitator" on the run, this version of The Blind Assassin is an overt act of seduction: the exchange of sex and story about an imaginary world of Sakiel-Norn (a play with the potential, and convention, of fantasy and sci-fi).

With the intelligence, subtlety and remarkable characterisation associated with Atwood's writing (from her first novel, The Edible Woman through to the best-selling Alias Grace), these two stories play with one another--sustaining an uncertainty about who has done what to who and why to the very end of this compelling book. --Vicky Lebeau

 
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Hardback Editions

November 2009 : Hardback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 1408802783 / 9781408802786 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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June 2008 : Hardback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 1906100039 / 9781906100032 (UK edition)
Publisher: Oak Tree Press
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October 2001 : Hardback
Title: The Blind Assassin (Charnwood Library)
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0708993109 / 9780708993101 (UK edition)
Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
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August 2001 : Library Binding
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0613369394 / 9780613369398 (USA edition)
Publisher: Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval
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September 2000 : Hardback
Title: The Blind Assassin (Random House Large Print)
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0375430857 / 9780375430855 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing
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September 2000 : Hardback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0747549370 / 9780747549376 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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September 2000 : Hardback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0385475721 / 9780385475723 (USA edition)
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
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September 2000 : Hardback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
ISBN: 0771008635 / 9780771008634 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd
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Paperback Editions

November 2011 : Paperback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0356226069 / 9780356226064 (UK edition)
Publisher: Virago
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September 2011 : Paperback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0771008910 / 9780771008917 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Emblem Editions
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February 2003 : Paperback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0771008643 / 9780771008641 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Emblem Editions
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September 2001 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0770428827 / 9780770428822 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Seal Books
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May 2001 : Paperback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 1860498809 / 9781860498800 (UK edition)
Publisher: Virago
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April 2001 : Paperback
Title: Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 038572084X / 9780385720847 (USA edition)
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf
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August 2001 : Paperback
Title: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0385720955 / 9780385720953 (USA edition)
Publisher: Anchor
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2001 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0770429017 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Seal Books
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2000 : Paperback
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0795328303 / 9780795328305 (USA edition)
Publisher: Qpd
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Audio Editions

September 2005 : Audio CD
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood, Michael O&#146Brien
ISBN: 0864924011 / 9780864924018 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: BTC Audiobooks
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May 2005 : Audio CD
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0739323695 / 9780739323694 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Audio
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March 2004 : Audio CD
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
ISBN: 0660190419 / 9780660190419 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Cbc Radio Canada
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January 2003 : Audio CD
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0007154747 / 9780007154746 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins
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May 2001 : Audio Cassette
Title: The Blind Assassin: Complete & Unabridged
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0754006468 / 9780754006466 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
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October 2000 : Audio Cassette
Title: The Blind Assassin (Audio Cassette)
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood, Lorelei (Narrator) King
ISBN: 0007113609 / 9780007113606 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins
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September 2000 : Audio Cassette
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0553527568 / 9780553527568 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Audio
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Kindle Editions

September 2009 : Kindle edition
Title: The Blind Assassin
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: B002TZ3DC6
Publisher: Virago
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December 2007 : Kindle edition
Title: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
Author(s):: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: B0012D1CYW
Publisher: Anchor
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