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Handmaid's Tale
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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...
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Oryx and Crake
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In Margaret Atwood's 11th novel, she returns to the sci-fi concerns and social criticism that propelled THE HANDMAID'S TALE. ORYX AND CRAKE follows the fortunes of a man once named Jimmy, now called Snowman: his present-day life as a scavenger in a blasted world alternates with his memories of his past. The eponymous Oryx is an Asian girl he ...
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Blind assassin
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'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' Thus begins "The Blind Assasin", Margaret Atwood's stunning new novel. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent Industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family ...
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Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood
'Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty ...
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Cat's Eye
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Margaret Atwood explores the ambiguous roots of women's relationships in her latest novel, which tells the story of a woman obsessed with memories of the past. Elaine Risley returns to Toronto to seek her elusive friend Cordelia, who was the cause of childhood cruelty and terror many years earlier. Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, writer and ...
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Surfacing
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Margaret Atwood
A young woman returns to northern Quebec to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she begins to realise that going home means entering not only another place but another time. As the wild island exerts its elemental hold and she is ...
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Robber Bride
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Margaret Atwood
Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman's nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure Tony, Roz and Charis are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share an indulgent, sisterly lunch, the unthinkable happens; 'with waves of ill will flowing ...
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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
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Margaret Atwood
Telling the story of Homer's "Odyssey" from the point of view of Penelope and her 12 hanged maids, the bestselling author of "Oryx and Crake" draws on Greek mythology for Volume 2 in the Myths series.
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories
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Margaret Atwood
In these ten interrelated stories, Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it. By turns funny, tragic, earthy, and deeply personal, "Moral Disorder" displays Atwoods celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage.
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Edible Woman
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Margaret Atwood
Ever since her engagement, Marian McAlpin can't eat: first meat, then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds--anything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten herself. Instead of feeling consumed with passion, Marian simply feels consumed. This comic novel is a pointed satire of modern relationships.
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Lady Oracle
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Margaret Atwood
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of romances to distinguished poet - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identiities. She decides to escape to an Italain hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organise her own death...
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Dancing Girls & Other Stories
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Margaret Atwood
This book features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? In this collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.
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Wilderness Tips
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Margaret Atwood
A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinay life.
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Life Before Man
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Elizabeth, monstrous yet pitiable, Nate, her husband, a patchwork man, gentle, disillusioned; Lesje, a younger woman at the natural history museum, for whom dinosaurs are as important as men. This is a sexual triangle; three people in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love...
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
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Margaret Atwood
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they ...
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The Tent
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Margaret Atwood
Atwood is one of the world's most esteemed authors, a writer of wide range--novels, stories, essays, criticism. She now brings readers a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays punctuated with her own wonderful illustrations.
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Bodily Harm
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Margaret Atwood
Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.
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Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
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Margaret Atwood
A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming pale, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds...In these exceptional ...
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The Best American Short Stories 1989
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Margaret Atwood (Editor), Shannon Ravenel (Editor)
Margaret Atwood chooses stories by Blanche McCrary Boyd, Bharati Mukherjee, Michael Cunningham, Harriet Doerr, Alice Munro, and others.
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Murder in the Dark
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Margaret Atwood
First published in 1983, Murder in the Dark is Margaret Atwood's seventh work of fiction or her tenth book of poetry, depending on how you slice it. These short prose forms range from fictionalized autobiography through prose-poetry, miniromance, and miniscience fiction. A feast of comic entertainment, Murder in the Dark is Atwood at her wittiest, ...
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The Journals of Susanna Moodie
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Margaret Atwood, Charles Pachter
This poetry collection was first written in 1970. In 1980, Atwood's long-time friend, the artist Charles Pachter, illustrated, designed and published a limited, hand-made, boxed portfolio edition of 120 copies of the poem with silkscreen illlustrations. This is a facsimile edition of it.
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Carried Away: A Selection of Stories
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Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood (Introduction by)
A dazzling selection of stories- 17 favorites picked by the author- ranging across her distinguished career.
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Good Bones and Simple Murders
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Margaret Atwood
This selection of Margaret Atwood's short works--including prose poems, fractured fairy tales, and outrageous little stories--has been illustrated by the versatile author.
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Morning in the Burned House
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Margaret Atwood
In Atwood's poems, Helen of Troy appears as a tabletop dancer and Miss July muses on life as a cheesecake queen. There are also poems dealing with love, with memory, and the fragility of the natural world. An elegiac series on the death of a parent completes this collection.
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Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature
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Margaret Atwood
This book is intended for all readers of Canadian Literature, and of Margaret Atwood; students of Canadian Literature and History, and of comparative literature.
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