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“All stories are about wolves… Anything else is sentimental drivel.”Atwood doesn’t write sentimental drivel (and I don’t read it), and there are several wolves in this stunning book. This is my tenth Atwood, and it’s even better than any of the others I’ve enjoyed. The scope and variety of her work is impressive, but here, she accomplishes that within the covers of a single book: it should be shelved as historical fiction, memoir, espionage/thriller, and sci-fi. It grabs the reader in the first
“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.” Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin is a fascinating and compelling read! There are so many seemingly competing stories which add to the complexity of the narrator and her life. They are also next to impossible to fully understand without the rest of the stories (as strange and disjointed as they sometimes appear). The result is that the reader stays somewhat lost until all the pieces fall into place. The novel begins with the de...
4 1/2 starsI can’t give the book 5 stars, because I know I will never read it again. The story is its own spoiler. But until it’s done, it’s a dark, almost gothic page turner.I usually start my reviews with something about the author, but unusually for me I’ve already read three books by this author (the dystopian Maddaddam Trilogy). Can you blame me for thinking that everyone must know this author, if I’ve read four novels by her? Of course you can’t.First off, this novel is in no way a science...
"I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over." 4.5*
A superb book looking at the lies, cover-ups, stories and tragedies besetting a one-time rich family in Canada as their worth, status and influence diminishes over the years, as so do their numbers! Stories within stories within stories. Atwood captures each passing decade perfectly right down to the colloquialisms. Very nice work. 8 out of 12.2016 read
First thought was, I think this might have been a really good 350 page novel. Unfortunately it’s almost twice the size and as cluttered with random detail as an attic. In this sense it’s a typical Booker Prize winner (for me the only time the Booker judges have got even close to being on the money in the past decade is Hilary Mantel).Ostensibly The Blind Assassins tells the story of two sisters and their relationships with two men at either ends of the political spectrum – Iris marries the indus...
"I wonder which is preferable - to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must s...
atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel is a slow and melancholy downward movement, one in which the melancholy becomes cumulative. despite the sad and tragic tone, there are many paths to pure enjoyment present: through the precise, judgmental, dryly amusing recollections of the narrator as she recounts her current life and her past life between the world wars; through the intense, intimate, yet almost metaphorical scenes of two lovers connecting, not connecting, reconnecting; through the wonderful...
Dynastic MisfortuneThat strip of Canada from the Niagara River to Lake St. Clair along the northern shore and hinterland of Lake Erie is a very peculiar place. Culturally it is best defined in negative terms: it is not the United States of those coarse and tasteless Yankees, and it is not French-speaking as are their equally coarse and tasteless neighbours in Quebec. Geographically I suppose it might be called lower rather than Southern Ontario, suggesting a certain psychic distance from the nat...
Okay, I’m conflicted about this one.Margaret Atwood is a literary deity. I’m impressed by the ambition of this big, sprawling novel, surely her most audacious stand-alone book. I adore the vivid period detail about Toronto, where I live, and the fictional Port Ticonderoga, which feels like a composite of various Southern Ontario towns I’ve visited. I enjoy how the various elements of the book eventually come together.And yet...There’s something contrived and coldly schematic about The Blind Assa...
