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The Heart Goes Last

Margaret Atwood

  • 400 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2015
  • 14 editions
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1 About this book

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.

Good for readers who want: dystopian fiction and satire.

  • Relationships
  • Dystopian fiction
  • Satire
  • Science fiction
  • Adventure
  • Prisons
  • Married people
  • Regression (Civilization)

2 About Margaret Atwood

Born 1939

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 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 best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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