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Surfacing, one of Margaret Atwood's earliest works of fiction, is rich with beautiful language. Physically, the novel is set on a remote, barely hospitable Canadian island, and readers are transported there via Atwood's precise descriptions of geography, wildlife and flora. Psychologically, however, the novel takes place inside the head of Atwood's suffering nameless protagonist. The author expertly navigates this equally treacherous landscape, and the glimpses into the language of a nervous bre
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This book weird me out. I really don't know what to think of it. The mystery of the plot kept me going, otherwise I would have put it down a long time ago. This is my first Margaret Atwood book. Though I think her writing is great in terms of complexity and very poetic, I just couldn't get into the book. I could detect a tone in this book about how human was greedy and often take more than what we give back, but I don't get her hatred of Americans and men - was it because she was tortured when s
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A smashing little book...
As Atwood does so well... she delves into personal relationships with family, friends and oneself and reveals train-wreck after train-wreck. As usual thogh the main character goes on a personal journey of discovey and comes out the other side a different person from the one that started the book.
What do such books tell us?
I am really unsure, except that they seem to have a certain resonance with our everyday lives and must be reasonable as Atwood's style has been copied ...more
As Atwood does so well... she delves into personal relationships with family, friends and oneself and reveals train-wreck after train-wreck. As usual thogh the main character goes on a personal journey of discovey and comes out the other side a different person from the one that started the book.
What do such books tell us?
I am really unsure, except that they seem to have a certain resonance with our everyday lives and must be reasonable as Atwood's style has been copied ...more
Normally I love Atwood, but this one's a rare miss for me. Just couldn't get into it and found it lacking that veneer of normalcy that normally underlies her weird.
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Well-written but being stuck in the north Canadian wetlands with such unlikable people doesn't make for a fun, enjoyable read.
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