The Blind Assassin
| Title | The Blind Assassin |
| Year for Search | 2000 |
| Authors | Atwood, Margaret [Eleanor](b. 1939) |
| Date Published | 2000 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | Canadian author, Female author |
| Annotation | In a novel focusing on a family history two stories are told, one intermittently throughout the novel and one in a few brief sections. The first is a dystopia describing an authoritarian country on another planet and its institutions, particularly those around the sacrifice of virgins. The second is a male fantasy flawed eutopia which the men find fades over time. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Canadian female author (b. 1939) |
| Full Text | 2000 Atwood, Margaret [Eleanor] (b. 1939). The Blind Assassin. London: Bloomsbury. PSt In a novel focusing on a family history two stories are told, one intermittently throughout the novel and one in a few brief sections. The first is a dystopia describing an authoritarian country on another planet and its institutions, particularly those around the sacrifice of virgins. The second is a male fantasy flawed utopia which the men find fades over time. Canadian female author. |
