Review“One of the most important novels of the twentieth century...utterly remarkable.”–_New York Times Book Review___“Atwood probes emotions with X-ray precision. All in all, it’s an exhilarating performance.”–_Globe and Mail_“A brilliant tour-de-force.”–_Winnipeg Free Press___“Atwood’s powers of observation are disconcertingly acute, combining an ear for the vernacular with an eye for the jugular.”–_Time_“The depth and complexity of Atwood’s critique of contemporary society are stunning.”_–Ms_.“It is excellent in so many ways that one cannot begin to do justice to it in a review. It has to be read and experienced.”–Margaret Laurence, _Quarry_“Margaret Atwood is one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century.”–_Vogue___“In this disturbing book, Margaret Atwood has written a fascinating, sometimes frightening novel about our Canadian landscape, about our paranoia, about what we are and what we are becoming....Astonishing.”–_Edmonton Journal_“_Surfacing_ is likely the best piece of fiction produced by Atwood’s generation in North America or anywhere.”–_Canadian Forum_“[Atwood is] a superb storyteller who brings intelligence and wit to bear in a compelling personal vision.”–_Toronto Star_“It is quite simply superb....She writes with the ease of total acceptance, from right inside the culture, authenticating our experience, holding up a mirror so that the image we get back is not distorted by satire or made unreal by proselytizing...but real.”–_Maclean’s_“The sophistication of its telling, the power of observation and imagination make the book remarkable....It’s a masterful encounter with the way we live now.”–_Kingston Whig-Standard_From the Hardcover edition.Product DescriptionPart detective novel, part psychological thriller,Surfacingis the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. _Surfacing_ is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole.