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This book bears us on the stream of a weekend riding on the past. This book is effective and touching if you can move with it - but it isn't a linear-read.
Surfacing is the story of a woman's search of self as she searches for signs of her father on her family's island home. Her father's disappearance, which the protagonist addresses with the stoicism of one accustomed to living in remote territory, is o... Read More
Atwood for me is something deep. The nameless protagonist in surfacing is of this latter variety, contemplative and introspective. It shows the brilliance of atwood surfacing itself.
Surfacing is an exploration of the unadorned human psyche. Author turns her formidable powers of observation - even dissection - to the human psyche, and the results are superb. She has a way of burrowing into your mind, your heart, and trapping you.
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Quality
I liked the novel it arrived timely and had no problems with the book
Love the notes that are added to this novel helps me a lot with the fact that there is another persons opinon on top of my own ... Read More
Though not intended as horror surfacing explores its themes with a sense of impending terror such that the final moments which ... Read More
Surfacing is one of her early works and as such has more of a raw quality about it than say the handmaids tale
Competitiveness
She lives more in her head than in the physical world
I dont understand this book getting less than 5stars ever in any universe
Atwood here captures the essence of what it is to be human in the modern world
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In margaret atwoods 1972 novel a young woman returns to the remote island in quebec where she grew up
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Over the course of a week they search for traces of him while the narrator uncovers suppressed pieces of her past
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This is a strange and thoughtprovoking little book
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It starts out a young woman is traveling with her friends to an island on a lake in northern quebec to the house where she grew up
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She finds a map with an x which connects to random scribbles in her fathers album
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But the landscape is slippery and seems slightly unreal
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From the side hes like a buffalo on the us nickel shaggy and blunt snorted with small clenched eyes and the defiant but insane look of a species once dominant now threatened with extinction
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Our unnamed narrator is previously married and had left him and her child
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