Surfacing /

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller,Surfacingis 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 ma...

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Autore principale: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Natura: Libro
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: London : Virago, 1979.
Serie:Virago modern classics ; no. 8
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Riassunto:Part detective novel, part psychological thriller,Surfacingis 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.Surfacingis 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.
Descrizione del documento:"First published in Great Britain 1973."
Descrizione fisica:[4], 192 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:0860680649