MB Book Club 2

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 01-12-2011, 04:07 PM

First up:
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

"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."

~~James~~ · 01-12-2011, 04:14 PM

Digital copy plz.

FETCHER. · 01-12-2011, 04:22 PM

Same pls <3.

djchameleon · 01-12-2011, 04:27 PM

only the spanish version is showing up at my library so I'll take one also

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 01-12-2011, 04:27 PM

PMs will be sent when I get home. I encourage you all to utilise your library catalogs as well. worldcat.org will tell you what libraries have it near you. If anyone else wants a digital copy, ask and you shall receive.

FETCHER. · 01-12-2011, 04:31 PM

I shal try the library actually once I get a membership, never thought of that

Arya Stark · 01-12-2011, 05:29 PM

I can't imagine reading a digital copy of something, but can I have one just incase I can't get the actual book itself?
Eh, they actually have it at both libraries in t he town where I go to school, so I'll either wait until then or buy it on Amazon.

FETCHER. · 01-12-2011, 05:31 PM

I tried to read trainspotting online when I had to spare money to buy the book. Failed and I love my book more than anything.

FaSho · 01-12-2011, 05:37 PM

I'll try to go to the library tommorow.

bob. · 01-12-2011, 06:02 PM

just got back from the library.....with this book....i'll start tonight

01-12-2011, 04:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	MB Book Club 2 First up: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood "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."

01-12-2011, 06:02 PM	#10 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	just got back from the library.....with this book....i'll start tonight __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

01-12-2011, 04:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
~~James~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 4,483	Digital copy plz.

01-12-2011, 04:27 PM	#5 (permalink)
~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	PMs will be sent when I get home. I encourage you all to utilise your library catalogs as well. worldcat.org will tell you what libraries have it near you. If anyone else wants a digital copy, ask and you shall receive.