false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803364m/46755.jpg 46755 27 Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, <i>Surfacing</i> is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec.  Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices.  <i>Surfacing</i> is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose.  Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole. 924766 book 1972 Surfacing total:3005|5:471|4:934|3:1103|2:376|1:121| 3005 10273 4014 209 5 4 false false Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 12:08:37 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 00:46:11 -0700 2008 The Edible Woman, which was written around the same time as this one. And Surfacing consistently gets rapturous praise from English-major types and m...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Aug 25 20:41:27 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 20:51:01 -0700 2007

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You fit into me like a hook in an eye
A fishhook
An open eye

Haha. Well, she was a bit dark and bitter in the 60's and 70's. I haven't read any of her later stuff.

This was a good book, a woman who turns into an animal living on a remo...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 30 14:31:30 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 14:37:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 13:23:54 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 13:42:42 -0800 2009
I prefer male w...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 05:13:37 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 05:36:32 -0700 2009 --Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

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