Friday Flashback: Rec. #203 (abbrev.): The Blind Assassin

I decided to start doing Friday Flashbacks in case you missed some early posts the first time around. You're busy; I understand.

What: Tour de force novel from Margaret Atwood, multiple-award-winning, 20th-century spanning, sisters, roman à clef, button factories, pulp science fiction, wealthy industrialist, adultery, newspaper articles, suicide, Canadian history, bridges, dingy backstreet rooms, socialist agitator, dead husband on a sailboat, World War II, self-delusion, potboiler, story within a story within a story

Representative quote: "Herbivores flee before them, scavengers follow, wolves lope alongside."

Also: The Robber Bride (Rec. #105) and The Penelopiad (Personal Wreck List #3, Rec. #298)

[Originally posted 10/30/11]