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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

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Author Biography

Name: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Birth Date: 1939
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, poet, cultural activist

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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
9683 words, approx. 32.3 pages
One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has pub...
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Biography of Margaret Atwood
6447 words, approx. 21.5 pages
The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the C...
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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
5060 words, approx. 16.9 pages
Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's fict...
 


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The Blind Assassin Information
787 words, approx. 3 pages
The Blind Assassin is an award winning and bestselling novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000. Set in Canada, it is narrated from the present day, referring back to events that span the...


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World Literature Today
Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin.
01/01/2002: 521 words, approx. 2 pages
New York, Talese/Doubleday. 2000 521 pages. $26. ISBN 0-385-47572-1 BE WARNED. Open the covers of The Blind Assassin and you will enter the broad boulevards, historical mazes, strange alleyways, pitiless personalities, bombed buildings, stinging assertions, and murky certainties of Margaret Atwood's disciplined...
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The Christian Century
The Blind Assassin.(Review) (book review)
02/28/2001: 516 words, approx. 2 pages
The Blind Assassin. By Margaret Atwood. Doubleday, 518 pp., $26.00. CANADIAN WRITER Margaret Atwood may be most familiar to religious audiences for her 1986 novel The Handmaid's Tale, which satirizes the religious hypocrisy of the right, the political pretensions of the left...
 


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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

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