Surfacing - Margaret Atwood

5.3	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Anchor
Release date : 16 March 1998
ISBN-10 : 0385491050 | ISBN-13 : 9780385491051

Fiction (2), BookCrossing Release (1), PB (1), 1001 Books TBR (1), Literature (1), Mental Illness (1), Canadian (1)

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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 ... (more)

Written by

Margaret Atwood

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5.3/10
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chuckmuck

I really didn't like this book

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 17 10:56

I understand what was trying to be done with the book and I really loved a few sentences, very quote worthy but this book really didn't do it for me. I was left with a flat, confused, possibly irritated feeling. This is the only Atwood book I've not really liked. First off, I don't feel that the blurb from the cover comes even close to describing the story. It was not at all like a detective novel nor thrilling. I don't think I've ever read a more misleading blurb. *Warning* The next might be a spoiler. I think it did a good job in showing the decline of her emotional and mental state and it felt like it was really building up to something but then the end came too quickly and nothing, there was not any wholeness in the end or if that was what happened then it was all wrong. I can...Read more

Rating : 3/10

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