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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Bantam Audio
Publication date September 1, 2000
Binding Cassette/Spoken Word
Edition Unabridged
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780553527568
ISBN-10 0553527568
Dimensions 2.75 by 4.50 by 6.25 in.
Weight 1 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $39.95
Other format details audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In an imaginative, multi-layered novel, Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, Laura, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, a wealthy industrialist whose body is found aboard a sailboat, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room. Simultaneous.
Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780375430855 Book cover for 9780385475723 Book cover for 9780747549376 Book cover for 9780771008634 Book cover for 9781408802786
 
With Margaret Eleanor Atwood | from Bloomsbury Pub Ltd (November 2, 2009); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9781408802786 | details & prices | 544 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 2.55 lbs | List price $38.70
This edition also contains Blind Assassin, Blind Assassin
About: Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War.
Large print edition from Random House Large Print (October 1, 2000); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9780375430855 | details & prices | 5.75 × 7.25 × 1.75 in. | 2.60 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.
from McClelland & Stewart Ltd (September 30, 2000); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9780771008634 | details & prices | List price $37.99
from Nan a Talese (September 1, 2000); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9780385475723 | details & prices | 521 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 2.00 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.
from Bloomsbury Pub Ltd (August 1, 2000); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9780747549376 | details & prices | List price $55.01
About: 'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780385720953
 
from Anchor Books (August 1, 2001); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9780385720953 | details & prices | 521 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780864924018
 
from Btc Audio Books (September 30, 2005); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9780864924018 | details & prices | 5.75 × 5.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $24.95
About: In this mesmerizing dramatization of Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Iris Chase reflects on her privileged yet troubled youth in 1930s Toronto and the events leading up to the car crash that killed her younger sister.
from Btc Audio Books (September 30, 2005); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9780864924018 | details & prices | 5.75 × 5.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $24.95
About: In this mesmerizing dramatization of Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Iris Chase reflects on her privileged yet troubled youth in 1930s Toronto and the events leading up to the car crash that killed her younger sister.
Abridged edition from Cbc Radio Canada (May 1, 2004); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9780660190419 | details & prices | List price $24.95
About: Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War.
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780553527568
 
The price comparison is for this edition
With Margot Dionne (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Bantam Audio (September 1, 2000); titled "The Blind Assassin"
9780553527568 | details & prices | 4.50 × 6.25 × 2.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $39.95
About: Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.

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