Some chapters are modern Iris some retrace her childhood and adulthood some are excerpts from ‘The Blind Assassin’. It was only published after her death, and has grown in reputation, and Atwood puts large portions of the novel into her novel. Laura is the author of a modern classic, called ‘The Blind Assassin’. The opening line is brilliant one of the best I’ve read: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” The main character is Iris Chase, looking back across her long life – though there are various other layers to it. (But it was still SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN PAGES.) But then I was at my friend Nana-Yaa’s house, and mentioned it – she revealed that it was her favourite book, and pressed a copy into my hands. That was partly because it was SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN PAGES and partly because I once owned it, and gave it away unread. My book group chose The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood for our read this month, and initially I wasn’t going to read it.
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