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Surfacing

Written by: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Kim Handysides
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From the author of The New York Times best-selling novels The Handmaid’s Tale - now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series - and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing 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. 

Surfacing 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.
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Mystery Suspense Literary Fiction
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haven't finished yet...

Just want to put it out there that cedar actually doesn't rot quickly. it actually resists rot and will last longer than other untreated wood.

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confusion

I found this interesting and well written, until chapter 20 ... then confusion, either I missed something or the story took a strange turn

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Fantastic

Margaret Atwood's mind is amazing. I lose track of time with getting caught in her amazing creativity.

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  • 2019-08-01

Hate filled book

I cannot understand why I contunued with this book. Worst book I read by this author, I guess I thought it would get better. Depressing!

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