
Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood
Taste attributes: dramapsychologicalfresh & originalunsavouryheavyenclosedemotive & stirringall consuming questtroubled leadsself destruction/implosion
Boxlist takeExpect an unsavoury, serious novel, small-scale rather than epic. Best if you like depth over escapism.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: very dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Open Library rating
3.4 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 208
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- Open Library
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