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Surfacing
- Narrated by: Kim Handysides
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
From the author of The New York Times best-selling novels The Handmaid’s Tale - now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series - and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.
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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- S. Anderson
- 06-09-21
Atwood always delights
I’ve read many of Atwood’s novels and loved all of them. This may be the most “plotless” (as one reviewer called it) but I enjoyed that. Atwood takes you deep into the Canadian landscape, her descriptions fauna, lake, swamp, and forests make me feel I have been there.
The main character’s self discovery and what “surfaces” midway through the novel is beautifully executed.
My second time reading and I may read again!
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- S OST
- 07-02-19
Well worth a listen to
Really enjoyed this, especially towards the end. Ends in typical Atwood style, leaving you guessing! Narrator is very good too.
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- Lucy
- 31-03-20
An excellent listen !
Beautifully crafted and written. Really enjoyed this multi layered audiobook. Very well read too.
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- Carl Conway
- 06-07-21
Glorious writing
Thoughtful, intelligent and beautifully written. Descriptions of nature and human relationships with nature sensitively observed.
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- Olha Siruk
- 01-02-23
I didn't understand anything 😂
Either it is a genius book, or very bad one 😄 Nothing happens, A lot of thinking, I don't know. Maby I am just too simple minded to understand it 😜
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- Eileen
- 30-06-21
I made need to listen another 5 times and even then…
I’ve no idea what this was about - I’ve re listened to sections - nope that didn’t work and if it’s supposed to be clever - at least give the average reader something to go on. I don’t like giving up on books, so I persevered- but really wished I hadn’t started it.
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- Mad Iphone fan
- 02-10-19
5 hours too long
This book was so frustrating, waiting for something,anything to happen. Did not like at all
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-12-18
Disappointing
I think this maybe dated now. Interesting environmental and feminist views but not really working as a novel, at least not for me.
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- Shirley Macdonald
- 14-02-23
Ingnorant
Yep that’s me ignorant !! I don’t have a clue what the hell it’s about . Atwood is a genius but this one has me beat . I’ll maybe read it instead I think listening was a mistake
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