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Transcript: Review: Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin"
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- September 20, 2000
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Review: Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin"
Host: NOAH ADAMS
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
NOAH ADAMS, host:
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood has consistently had success with
readers in the US. Her latest book is "The Blind Assassin," and reviewer
Alan Cheuse says she appears to have another hit.
ALAN CHEUSE reporting:
The scene is provincial Ontario during the '30s and '40s. Two sisters,
daughters of a man who owns a button factory, their childish hopes,
their fantasies, their excruciatingly painful adulthood. Not material
you'd think most American readers would rush to discover. But when
does a pracy(ph) of ...