The Blind Assassin by Atwood, Margaret

The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.

Decades later, Laura's sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family's history. Intertwined with Iris's account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet.

These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.

Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 08/28/2001
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780385720953

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 30
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 44870 / Blind Assassin

Award: Libris Awards - Winner
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
BookPage 09/01/2001 pg. 13
Entertainment Weekly 09/28/2001 pg. 66
Booklist 06/01/2002 pg. 1678

About the Author
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.