The Heart Goes Last

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The Heart Goes Last

Author : Margaret Atwood

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

432

Pages

9780349007298

ISBN-13

0349007298

ISBN-10

Little, Brown Book Group

Publisher

198 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

27 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaines job at a dive bar, theyre increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs and in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience - a social experiment o Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaines job at a dive bar, theyre increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs and in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience - a social experiment offering stable jobs and a home of their own - they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But slowly, unknown to the other, Stan and Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over, and Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.