A 3rd copy (believe it or not!) purchased for BCing. I love Margaret Atwood, and so whenever I see one of her books in a store, I feel inclined to buy it, and send it through our BCing world.

From Amazon.com:

"The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood's most ambitious work unfolds--a tricky process, in fact, with several nested narratives and even an entire novel-within-a-novel--we're reminded of just how complicated the familial game of hide-and-seek can be:
What had she been thinking of as the car sailed off the bridge, then hung suspended in the afternoon sunlight, glinting like a dragonfly, for that one instant of held breath before the plummet? Of Alex, of Richard, of bad faith, of our father and his wreckage; of God, perhaps, and her fatal, triangular bargain.
Meanwhile, Atwood immediately launches into an excerpt from Laura Chase's novel, The Blind Assassin, posthumously published in 1947. In this double-decker concoction, a wealthy woman dabbles in blue-collar passion, even as her lover regales her with a series of science-fictional parables. Complicated? You bet. But the author puts all this variegation to good use, taking expert measure of our capacity for self-delusion and complicity, not to mention desolation. Almost everybody in her sprawling narrative manages to--or prefers to--overlook what's in plain sight. And memory isn't much of a salve either, as Iris points out: "Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them." Yet Atwood never succumbs to postmodern cynicism, or modish contempt for her characters. On the contrary, she's capable of great tenderness, and as we immerse ourselves in Iris's spliced-in memoir, it's clear that this buttoned-up socialite has been anything but blind to the chaos surrounding her."

Available.

RELEASE NOTES:

Sending to BCer MarciNYC, as part of the "Two Days or Replace" bookrelay. Marci, I hope you enjoy it!!!

Received and joining the others on Mt TBR. I've not read Atwood before, yet this book always captures my attention - there's something about the cover that I like, but I've never bought it, so... Will try to make this one of my 2005 reads when I'm in need of something other than a cozy mystery.

NB: I managed to find another copy at the library book sale, so I'm going to pass this one on. I feel guilty holding on to books other BXers have registered for long periods of time. While I do plan to read this book this year, I don't know when exactly. Having my own copy let's me do it without pressure. (Not that I'm pressured, but I hope you know what I mean!)

RELEASE NOTES:

Sending to another BXer for the purposes of stocking a OBCZ.

thank you for helping us stock our OBCZ!