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The Heart Goes Last
The Heart Goes Last
Author: Margaret Atwood
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs, and in a rather desperate state. — So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804194914
ISBN-10: 0804194912
Publication Date: 9/29/2015
Pages: 512
Edition: Lrg
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Publisher: Random House Large Print
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 9
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This wasn't my favorite Atwood book but it was still a decent read. Essentially set in a dystopian future similar to Oryx And Crake except with a lighter, more satirical tone. Some of the satire and parody in here could get a little heavy-handed at times and I thought the last third of the book was less interesting in terms of setting and plot development than the earlier sections, but any book that gets people to consider the ethics of issues like prison privatization is probably worth the read regardless of smaller issues. This isn't her best work but then I feel like very few books come close to Oryx or Handmaid's Tale.
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This is the first book that I've read by Margaret Atwood and I don't know... I maybe should have read some of her earlier work first. It is not bad writing by any means. It is easy to see why she is so well known. Her writing was great but just a little too far out for me I guess. There were sex-bots and brain reprogramming to name a couple things and I was expecting it to be a little more realistic. So I'm saying 3 stars because she is a wonderful writer but I just didn't like the science-fiction aspect of it. I'm going to give Cat's Eye a try though


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