![]() ![]() This central plot is well constructed, delivering several major revelations late in the novel. For when you strip out the unnecessary layering in The Blind Assassin (Atwood's story of that title, not the sister's, not the fugitive's) you are left with a melodramatic mystery centering on a prominent smalltown family. While these tricks have their effective literary use, I fear they are too often used to impart a false sense of depth to a story that is really quite simple. Thus are combined two streams of modern literature I dread: the book about someone writing a book and the story within a story within a story. Margaret Atwood writes her Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Assassin about an elderly woman writing her memoirs about her and her sister's lives, the younger sibling having written an infamous novel called The Blind Assassin, which recounts her trysts with a political fugitive who is writing a trashy science fiction novel about a blind assassin. ![]()
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