Annotation
"The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Awards
2000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
2001 American Library Association Notable Books
2001 Libris Awards
2000 Hammett Prize
Characters
| Name | Griffen, Iris Chase |
| Gender | Female |
| Traits | Canadian |
| Widow | |
| Wealthy | |
| Socialite | |
| Genre | Domestic Literary Psychological Fiction |
| Topics | Reminiscences Family histories Family secrets Sisters Sibling rivalry Suspicious deaths Marriage of convenience Obsession |
| Setting | Toronto, Ontario |