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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 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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Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
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- Released
- 1983
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- Title
- Surfacing
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Margaret Atwood
- Publisher
- New Press Canadian Classics
- Released
- 1983
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0773670610
- ISBN13
- 9780773670617
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, USA, American Literature, Death, Feminism, Memories, Canada, Childhood, Loneliness, Searching for Oneself, Canadian Literature
- First published
- 1972
- Original title
- Surfacing
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- 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.