- Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Missing persons, Fiction in English
*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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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Time Warner Books Uk, General
- Editions
- 63
- Language
- dan, English, German, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780747511175
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“I can't believe I'm on this road again, twisting along past the lake where the white birches are dying, the disease is spreading up from the south, and I notice the now have sea lanes for hire.”
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, including 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her work has been published in over 40 countries, and a number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel *The Handmaid's Tale,* and her novels also include *Cat's Eye,* shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the
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