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The heart goes last : a novel / Margaret Atwood.

by Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-

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McClelland & Stewart, c2015.

Communal living -- Fiction.

Married people -- Fiction.

Prisoners -- Fiction.

Adultery -- Fiction.

308 p. ; 25 cm.

Several years after the world's brutal economic collapse, Stan and Charmaine, a married couple struggling to stay afloat, hear about the Positron Project in the town of Consilience, an experiment in cooperative living that appears to be the answer to their problems - to living in their car, to the lousy jobs, to the vandalism and the gangs, to their piled-up debt. There's just one drawback: once inside Consilience, you don't get out. After weighing their limited options, Stan and Charmaine sign up, and soon they find themselves involved in the town's strategy for economic stability: a pervasive prison system, whereby each citizen lives a double life, as a prisoner one month, and a guard or town functionary the next. At first, Stan and Charmaine enjoy their newfound prosperity. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who shares her civilian house, her actions set off an unexpected chain of events that leave Stan running for his life.

Dystopian fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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