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She is the author of more than thirty books novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. Fiction, fathers and daughters, missing persons, fiction in english. The main character in the story is also the narrator and is not given a name probably because readers will be able to i. Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, surfacing is the story of a young woman who returns to northern quebec, to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends. In this disturbing book, margaret atwood has written a fascinating, sometimes frightening novel about our canadian landscape, about our paranoia, about what we are and what we are becoming. Margaret atwood, whose work has been published in over thirtyfive countries, is the awardwinning author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays.
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An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 booker prize surfacing by margaret atwood books hachette australia. I recently experienced this book as part of a library. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Atwood also published three novels during this time. Her notable books included the handmaids tale 1985, alias grace 1996, the blind assassin 2000.
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