New York: Doubleday, Date: 2000. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Fine. Man Booker Prize winner first US edition First printing Flat signed on title page Unread 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2000. Doubleday ISBN 0385475721 9780385475723 [NZ]

Date: 2000 Doubleday trade hardcover, first US edition dedicated & signed by the author on the full title page. Not remainder marked, dj not price clipped($26.00). Tiny pen mark on ffep, else inside pages clean & unmarked. Two toned brown boards clean & square; gold lettering on spine fine. Binding firm & straight. Dj clean with no rips, no discoleration, looks fine in Brodart protective sleeve. 2000. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN 0385475721 9780385475723 [US]

Contents appear as unread & Unblemished in tan & brown boards. DJ displaying minimal surface/edge wear as shown, with corrected chipping & sm. tear at head of spine..Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experienceIt opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura'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.For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The Blind ...