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Article: One assassin after another Margaret Atwood's new novel is her most brilliant yet, says Kathryn Hughes
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- September 17, 2000
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Bloomsbury, pounds 16.99, 521 pp
pounds 14.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222
THE FERTILITY of Margaret Atwood's imagination is something
extraordinary. While other novelists twist back on themselves,
reprising themes and even plots from their earlier work, Atwood
simply pushes through to richer territory. The only thing familiar
about The Blind Assassin is its technical accomplishment and
exhilarating emotional power. Everything else is sparkling new.
Ever attentive to the limitations and possibilities of genre,
Atwood has written what passes for a sprawling family saga stretched
over 500 pages. Of course, this being Atwood, nothing is quite as
simple as it ...