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Title	:	The Heart Goes Last (Positron)
Author	:	Margaret Atwood
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 29th 2015 by Nan A. Talese (first published September 24th 2015)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Audiobook. Cultural. Canada. Speculative Fiction. Adult Fiction

The Heart Goes Last (Positron) Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

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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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Original Title:	The Heart Goes Last
ISBN:	0385540353 (ISBN13: 9780385540353)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Positron
Literary Awards:	Geffen Award Nominee for Best Translated Science Fiction Book (2019), The Kitschies for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2015)

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A new Margaret Atwood!!!! A new Margaret Atwood!!!!!A new Margaret Atwood!!!!!A new Margaret Atwood!!!!A new Margaret Atwood!!!!!

WTF this was so fucked up but really not in a good way??? Me reading this book:Maybe I'm just too dumb to get the deeper meaning behind this but I found it really disturbing and strange! All the sexism was just so bad and while I think I know what Atwood wants to say, I think she just couldn't communicate it as good as in the Handmaids Tale.x------Buddy read with the best buddy read partner hehe 😌

What did I just read? Dystopian/black comedy? I know this book has gotten mixed Goodreads reviews. But I just kind of loved this.

Hilarious Post Apocalyptic Parody of ConsumerismThe Old Girl's Better than EverSome writers fade as they age.Not Margaret Atwood.  If anything, she gets sharper as she gets older.  Her outrageous creativity and wicked sense of humor are front and center  in her latest novel, a romp through post-Armageddon North America. Plot SummaryCharmaine and Stan are barely surviving in the post apocalypse Northeast.  (I think the collapse is ecological and economic rather than military, but it doesn't



Margaret Atwoods new novel depicts another dystopia, but this one has a lighter tone than The Handmaids Tale or the MaddAddam Trilogy.After all, it features life-size sex dolls and groups of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley impersonators. Plus: its partly set in Las Vegas! But theres definitely a sinister underbelly to this world that, as in the best speculative fiction, says a lot about problems in our current one.After an economic collapse, 30-something couple Stan and Charmaine are reduced to

Hey look! It's Margaret Atwood does the Stepford Wives! Hilarity and perversity ensues! But with an underbelly of nastiness that will make you examine your darkest desires! Your commitment to your significant other(s)! Your notions of free will and (ugh!) what it means to be happy! Happy at last! Smile goddammit!!!I had a lot of fun reading this one, probably because it's easy to tell while reading it Atwood had a lot of fun writing it. It's the best kind of satire, one that doesn't take itself