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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)

The Heart Goes Last (Positron)

Margaret Atwood

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.37 | 51699 Users | 6135 Reviews

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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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Title	:	The Heart Goes Last (Positron)
Author	:	Margaret Atwood
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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

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Then hes unconscious. Then he stops breathing. The heart goes last.A wacked, absurd novel that becomes obvious satire as the novel continues. As I read this book, I initially took it very seriously, trying to connect with the characters, understand motives, etc. However, by the end with the organ harvesting, blue bears knitting by inmates for the pedophiles, sexbots, green man group, Elvises and Marilyns it became obvious that the book is entirely satirical and meant to be comical. It also

Atwoods previous project was the Maddaddam trilogy; while there are still dystopian elements here, she is blending speculative elements with realist social commentary in a way that makes me hope she is leaving the overt absurdity of her sci-fi scenarios behind. I didnt dislike the Maddaddam books per se, but nor did I feel that it was necessary to turn Oryx and Crake into a trilogy, especially when the two following novels only re-examined events from different perspectives, filling in backstory

What starts off as inspired dystopic horror, a parable or metaphor for the ages, heartbreakingly bleak, soon after delves into bleh. The title tells all: the taut & pretty perfect prose of Atwood (sorry lame musicians & beadyeyed actors, THIS is Canada's BEST export) has heart until it just doesn't. The beating is thus finished, the rigor mortis sets in within moments....This--her latest*--may just be my least favorite of hers. (Horrors!)*Not current

new Atwood = joy so huge I am terrifyingly contagious w/ itI mean yes of course I loved this because I love Margaret Atwood more than anything anything anything (except for one or two things). But I don't think it's one of her best. It feels very rushed, very surface like a preliminary sketch that hasn't been fully filled in, especially at the beginning. I'd have liked more buildup, more poorness and sickness desperation, so that we are more convinced when our heroes (?) make the decision to

Margaret Atwood has long been a wry, incisive prophet. From The Handmaids Tale to her Oryx and Crake trilogy, shes exposed our current ills by peering down the path and discerning perils fast approaching.In that time-traveling mode, Ive just returned from next Tuesday and can report that her upcoming novel is a silly mess.Several chapters of The Heart Goes Last appeared a few years ago in serial form on Byliner under the title Positron. At the time, Atwood told NPR that she was inspired by the

Not rating this. There is not much more I can take of this. Pages and pages of the sex lives of the four main characters, Enough is enough already. I'm done. Started out promising and than slid down from there. Maybe die hard Atwood fans will think differently.