Author
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the Canadian novelist behind The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Alias Grace, the MaddAddam trilogy, and The Blind Assassin (Booker Prize, 2000). Her work spans literary fiction, speculative fiction, poetry, and essays across six decades.
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1985-2000
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 2000 review. An elderly woman reconstructs the suspicious death of her sister, decades after the publication of the controversial novel-within-a-novel that bears the title The Blind Assassin. Booker Prize 2000.
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 1985 review. In the near-future Republic of Gilead, women have been stripped of their rights, and the handmaid Offred remembers the world before. The most-cited dystopian novel of the late twentieth century.
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 1985 review. In the near-future Republic of Gilead, women have been stripped of their rights, and the handmaid Offred remembers the world before. The most-cited dystopian novel of the late twentieth century.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 2000 review. An elderly woman reconstructs the suspicious death of her sister, decades after the publication of the controversial novel-within-a-novel that bears the title The Blind Assassin. Booker Prize 2000.