The Heart Goes Last
by Margaret Atwood, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins
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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Author Biography
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children's literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1969), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Her newest novel, MaddAddam (2013), is the final volume in a three-book series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short fiction) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, a collection of non-fiction essays appeared in 2011. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was adapted for the screen in 2012. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. Cassandra Campbell is an actress, director and teacher who has performed in New York at the Public Theater, the Mint Theater and the Clurman Theatre. She is an accomplished voiceover artist whose credits include numerous audiobooks, documentaries and commercials in both Italian and English. Mark Deakins is a television, film and voiceover actor. He has provided his voice to numerous video games, including Prototype. His film and TV credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Devil's Advocate, Head Case, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Insurrection.
Review
'The outstanding novelist of our age.' -- The Sunday Times 'Anyone keen to consign literary fiction to an early grave will have to deal with her first.' -- The Independent 'One of the world's major writers.' -- The Guardian 'Atwood makes it look so easy, doing what she does best: tenderly dissecting the human heart . A marvellous writer.' -- The Daily Mail
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