Surfacing

by Margaret Atwood

First published 1972 · 208 pages

About this book

*Surfacing* is 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.

  • Fiction
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Missing persons
  • Fiction in English
  • Quebec (province), fiction
  • Fathers and daughters, fiction
  • Missing persons, fiction
  • Sexual attraction

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