Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (English) Paperback Book

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Grace 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.

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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceStan 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 Consilience - a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own - they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But slowly, unknown to the other, Stan and Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over, and Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.

Notes

Paperback edition of Atwood's dystopian novel, set in a near-future in which American citizens can buy security by spending some time in prison. From the Booker Prize winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin. 'Gloriously madcap...' Stephanie Merritt, Observer

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"'Remember what your life used to be like?' says the man's voice . . . 'At the Positron Project in the town of Consilience, it can be like that again . . . Sign up now!'" For Stan and Charmaine, a married couple struggling with problems after the world's brutal economic collapse - living in their car, lousy jobs, vandalism, debt - it's the answer. There's just one drawback: once inside you don't get out. 'Awfully good' Mail on Sunday

Author Biography

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.

Review

Gloriously madcap . . . You only pause in your laughter when you realise that, in its constituent parts, the world she depicts here is all too horribly plausible - ObserverThe bestselling author who shot to fame 30 years ago with The Handmaid's Tale is still at her darkly comic best - Sunday TimesWhat distinguishes Atwood's apocalypticism is her insistence that we have brought it on ourselves. It's not meteor strikes, or aliens that destroy our world. It's us . . . I loved it - The TimesJubilant comedy of errors, bizarre bedroom farce, SF prison-break thriller, psychedelic sixties crime caper: The Heart Goes Last scampers in and out of all of these genres, pausing only to quote Milton on the loss of Eden or Shakespeare on weddings. Meanwhile, it performs a hard-eyed autopsy on themes of impersonation and self-impersonation, revealing so many layers of contemporary deception and self-deception that we don't know whether to laugh or cry - Guardian

Prizes

Winner of The Kitschies Red Tentacle 2016 (UK)Long-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2017 (UK)

Long Description

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace 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 Consilience - a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own - they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But slowly, unknown to the other, Stan and Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over, and Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.

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Her eye for the most unpredictable caprices of the human heart and her narrative fearlessness have made her one of the world's most celebrated novelists

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A sinister, wickedly funny novel about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free, The Heart Goes Last is Margaret Atwood at her heart-stopping best.

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One of the most imaginative and best-loved writers of our times

Details ISBN0349007292 Author Margaret Atwood Pages 432 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Year 2016 ISBN-10 0349007292 ISBN-13 9780349007298 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-08-04 Media Book Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1939 DEWEY 813.54 Imprint Virago Press Ltd Language English Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2016-08-04 AU Release Date 2016-08-08 NZ Release Date 2016-08-08 We've got this

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