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Sto caricando le informazioni... L'assassino cieco (2000)di Margaret Atwood
  
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.  RebeccaBooks | Sep 16, 2021 |  2021 book #48. 2000. Iris is an old woman setting down her life so her estranged granddaughter will know who she was. The story starts in 1914 with occasional new story inserts and a story by her dead sister Laura. It was hard to get into but eventually it clicked and I loved it. (  ) capewood | Aug 20, 2021 | A sprawling, wonderful novel....intrigue, romance, historical... and, in the end, a profound look at love in its time and place. Beautifully written to boot, Atwood does it again! (  ) mjspear | Jun 14, 2021 | So fussy and worked-over that even in its meticulously sculpted final form there seems to be something missing. A trace of Laura's real character, or Iris's, all her recollections coming as they do from the perspective of a woman half a century removed from her young life and very close to death. I eventually grew frustrated with Atwood's tells that she was working a bit too hard to make the pull off her ambitious formal gambit - such as her tendency to tie off each chapter, or even page break, with an aphorism. I like this book very much in theory but the experience of reading it is less than engaging. Atwood even seems to understand that she lacks a flair for melodrama, placing a major nod to the climactic plot twist about halfway through. I haven't read anything else by her but knowing that she writes poetry, I would guess that is more worth seeking out than her novels. It's filled with beautiful turns of phrase, anyway. (  ) brendanowicz | May 9, 2021 | A technical exercise by Atwood. Similarly to its sibling Alias Grace, it's a compendium of Canadian history, this time in the World War era, so be warned before you commit that it gets dense. Read it on vacation! Atwood throws in as many styles as she can, and gets away with it each time. But my favorite are still the drastic one-liners that she sneaks into her narration, which shine even in the deepest data. ( ) EugenioNegro | Mar 17, 2021 |
 Margaret Atwood poses a provocative question in her new novel, "The Blind Assassin." How much are the bad turns of one's life determined by things beyond our control, like sex and class, and how much by personal responsibility? Unlike most folks who raise this question so that they can wag their finger -- she's made her bed, and so on -- Atwood's foray into this moral terrain is complex and surprising. Far from preaching to the converted, Atwood's cunning tale assumes a like-minded reader only so that she can argue, quite persuasively, from the other side. In her tenth novel, Margaret Atwood again demonstrates that she has mastered the art of creating dense, complex fictions from carefully layered narratives, making use of an array of literary devices - flashbacks, multiple time schemes, ambiguous, indeterminate plots - and that she can hook her readers by virtue of her exceptional story-telling skills. The Blind Assassin is not a book that can easily be put to one side, in spite of its length and the fact that its twists and turns occasionally try the patience; yet it falls short of making the emotional impact that its suggestive and slippery plot at times promises.  Ms. Atwood's absorbing new novel, ''The Blind Assassin,'' features a story within a story within a story -- a science-fiction yarn within a hard-boiled tale of adultery within a larger narrative about familial love and dissolution. The novel is largely unencumbered by the feminist ideology that weighed down such earlier Atwood novels as ''The Edible Woman'' and ''The Handmaid's Tale,'' and for the most part it is also shorn of those books' satiric social vision. In fact, of all the author's books to date, ''The Blind Assassin'' is most purely a work of entertainment -- an expertly rendered Daphne du Maurieresque tale that showcases Ms. Atwood's narrative powers and her ardent love of the Gothic. In her ingenious new tale of love, rivalry, and deception, The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood interweaves several genres — a confessional memoir, a pulp fantasy novel, newspaper clippings — to tease out the secrets behind the 1945 death of 25-year-old socialite Laura Chase.  Nearly 20 years ago, in speaking of her craft, the novelist Margaret Atwood observed that ''a character in a book who is consistently well behaved probably spells disaster for the book.'' She might have asserted the more general principle that consistent anything in a character can prove tedious. If we apply the old Forsterian standard that round characters are ones ''capable of surprising in a convincing way,'' Atwood's new novel, for all its multilayered story-within-a-story-within-a-story construction, must be judged flat as a pancake. In ''The Blind Assassin,'' overlong and badly written, our first impressions of the dramatis personae prove not so much lasting as total. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiTEAdue Tea (1113)
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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What a book. I'm so glad it's over. Reading it was like a traumatic experience, right from the very beginning. It starts out bad and gets worse.
It's beautifully written. The main characters are engaging, their problems are real and relatable. The feeling of being trapped and helpless is is present on every page.
While reading it I'd wished I'd never started it. It gave me "free floating anxiety" for weeks. But now I feel as though Laura and Iris are my friends. I want to keep them with me. (