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'Ten days following the war ended, my sister Laura drove an automobile off a bridge.' Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood's new novel. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is surviving in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While bewailing her unreliable body and deriding those who make an effort to help her, Iris reflects on her behalf far from exemplary life and her perilous times, however in particular on the events surrounding her sister's tragic early death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase a dollop of notoriety and a cult following: as Iris says, she herself lives 'in the long shadow cast by Laura'. Sexually explicit because of its time and place, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a left-leaning man on the run.
