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The Heart Goes Last: A Novel
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The Heart Goes Last: A Novel

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Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.

Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around-and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes.

At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.

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Release dateSep 29, 2015
ISBN9781101924778
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The Heart Goes Last: A Novel
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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in over thirty-five countries, is the award-winning author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, which was made into a TV series, her novels include Cat's Eye, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake, and The Robber Bride. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once for The Blind Assassin. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Holy extra crap I loved this book. Margaret Atwood conquering.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    The beginning was great! Then it took off into this crazy drama about cheating spouses and a planned rape, no thanks. I couldn’t even finish it. I was no longer interesing. Just twists and turns that were never really flushed out. I lost interest.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    What a shame. I love Margaret Atwood and was so excited to get the book. It was horrible. I couldn't even get all the way through it. The story line wasn't really plausible to me. I didn't really get the whole prison exchange thing. It didn't make sense to me. The characters had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The sexual relationships were taken to a perverse level that just became annoying. I finally gave up at chapter 50. Go get one of her other wonderful, genius books and pass this one by.

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  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    interesting story... but abysmal writing and editing. so disappointed in Margaret Atwood, I am usually a big fan.

    2 people found this helpful