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The Heart Goes Last

Pages
320
Published
2015
Language
English

Synopsis

Stan and Charmaine are a married couple whose lives have been upended by economic collapse, forcing them to live in their car and face dangerous gangs. Their desperate situation seems to improve when they discover the Positron Project in Consilience, a town offering employment and housing. However, this seemingly utopian solution comes with a peculiar catch: residents only live in Consilience for six months of the year.

About the author

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, on 18 November 1939, she has written more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, criticism and graphic work, published in more than forty-five countries. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale (1985), which won the Governor General's Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and its sequel The Testaments (2019), a joint winner of the Booker Prize. She h...

Characters

StanProtagonist
CharmaineProtagonist
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