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Exploring the paradox of female villainy, this tale of three fascinating women is another peerless display of literary virtuosity by the supremely gifted author of Cat's Eye and The Handmaid's Tale. Roz, Charis and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Beautiful, smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the turbulent center of her own perpetual saga. She entered their lives in the sixties, when they were in college. Over the three decades since, she has damaged each of them badly, ensnaring their sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men as loot. Then Zenia dies, or at any rate the three women — with much relief — attend her funeral. But as The Robber Bride begins, Roz, Charis and Tony have come together at a trendy restaraunt for their monthly lunch when in walks the seemingly resurrected Zenia...In this consistently entertaining and profound new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the war between the sexes with her characteristic well-crafted prose, rich and devious humor, and compassion.Library JournalSet in Canada in the early 1970s, The Robber Bride continues Atwood's satiric exploration into sex and empowerment. Three women and the femme fatale who unites them are set against a backdrop of draft dodgers and the resurgence of feminism. Atwood is an astute observer of contemporary misinformation, and references to tarot, auras, astrology, and more abound. Despite some wonderful passages, however, the narrative thrust consists of self-contained vignettes that do not easily lend themselves to audio. The histories of these women are intense and distinctive, but the superficial present in which they do little more than move from restaurant to restaurant blurs them to the point of being interchangeable. When she stays with one character long enough (e.g., her treatment of Charis's incest-filled childhood at the start of the third tape), the poignancy increases. It's slow going, but a lively reading by Blythe Danner and musical interludes that accentuate the New Age mood should help keep maintain listeners' attention.

A Modern Classic Cherished By Many Of The Greatest Artists Of Our Time, The Gift Is A Brilliant, Life-changing Defense Of The Value Of Creative Labor. Drawing On Examples From Folklore And Literature, History And Tribal Customs, Economics And Modern Copyright Law, Lewis Hyde Demonstrates How Our Society--governed By The Marketplace--is Poorly Equipped To Determine The Worth Of Artists' Work. He Shows Us That Another Way Is Possible: The Alternative Economy Of The Gift, Which Allows Creations And Ideas To Circulate Freely, Rather Than Hoarding Them As Commodities. Illuminating And Transformative, The Gift Is A Triumph Of Originality And Insight--an Essential Book For Anyone Who Has Ever Given Or Received A Work Of Art.

And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood’s sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. ‘Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.' Margaret Atwood'THE LITERARY EVENT OF THE YEAR' Guardian

Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist.For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious.The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a- novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience. The novel has many threads and a series of events that follow one another at a breathtaking pace. As everything comes together, readers will discover that the story Atwood is telling is not only what it seems to be—but, in fact, much more.The Blind Assassin proves once again that Atwood is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of our time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, it is destined to become a classic.Bust MagazineRead the book as storytelling of the highest order. Or, if you choose, watch for "Atwood themes"—there's plenty of feminist stuff, political observations, and philosophical questioning of life events both grand and mundane.

Burned Space -- Foretelling The Future -- A Paper Bag -- The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart -- Fire Poems For Dolls -- Two Miles Away -- Today -- Nothing New Here -- Daybooks I -- Five Poems For Grandmothers -- The Man With A Hole In His Throat -- Note From An Italian Postcard Factory -- Footnote To The Amnesty Report On Torture -- Marrying The Hangman -- Four Small Elegies -- The Right Hand Fights The Left -- Two-headed Poems -- The Bus To Alliston, Ontario -- Nasturtium -- Solstice Poem -- The Woman Makes Peace With Her Faulty Heart -- Marsh, Hawk -- Daybooks Ii -- Lightning -- The Puppet Of The Wolf -- A Red Shirt -- Night Poem -- All Bread -- You Begin. Margaret Atwood. A Touchstone Book.

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A Collection Of Letters Between Martha Gellhorn And Her Family, Friends, Lovers, Politicians And Cultural Figures During The 1930's Usa, Spanish Civil War, Cuba With Hemingway, Europe In World War Ii And The Post-war Period-- Janet Somerville. Compiled By Janet Somerville. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

By The Author Of The Handmaid's Tale Now A Major Netflix Series 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 And Mystery. 'brilliant... Atwood's Prose Is Searching. So Intimate It Seems To Be Written On The Skin' Hilary Mantel 'the Outstanding Novelist Of Our Age' Sunday Times 'a Sensuous, Perplexing Book, At Once Sinister And Dignified, Grubby And Gorgeous, Panoramic Yet Specific...i Don't Think I Have Ever Been So Thrilled' Julie Myerson, Independent On Sunday

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge.“A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original’s back story falls neatly into place.”—The New York Times Book ReviewFelix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he’s staging aTempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge, which, after twelve years, arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison.Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own.Praise for Hag-Seed“What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included. . . . Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”—Boston Globe“Atwood has designed an ingenious doubling of the plot of The Tempest: Felix, the usurped director, finds himself cast by circumstances as a real-life version of Prospero, the usurped Duke. If you know the play well, these echoes grow stronger when Felix decides to exact his revenge by conjuring up a new version of The Tempest designed to overwhelm his enemies.”—Washington Post“A funny and heartwarming tale of revenge and redemption . . . Hag-Seed is a remarkable contribution to the canon.”—Bustle

Winner Of The Man Booker Prize By The Author Of The Handmaid's Tale And Alias Grace 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 Before The First War. While Coping With Her Unreliable Body, Iris Reflects On Her Far From Exemplary Life, In Particular The Events Surrounding Her Sister's Tragic Death. Chief Among These Was The Publication Of The Blind Assassin, A Novel Which Earned The Dead Laura Chase Not Only Notoriety But Also A Devoted Cult Following. Sexually Explicit For Its Time, The Blind Assassin Describes A Risky Affair In The Turbulent Thirties Between A Wealthy Young Woman And A Man On The Run. During Their Secret Meetings In Rented Rooms, The Lovers Concoct A Pulp Fantasy Set On Planet Zycron. As The Invented Story Twists Through Love And Sacrifice And Betrayal, So Does The Real One; While Events In Both Move Closer To War And Catastrophe. By Turns Lyrical, Outrageous, Formidable, Compelling And Funny, This Is A Novel Filled With Deep Humour And Dark Drama.

NATIONAL BESTSELLERSoon to be a major motion picture"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times"Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington PostThe Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one.But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

Dennis Revisited -- Wondering What It's Likfe To Be A Woman: The Witches Of Eastwickby John Updike -- The Sorcere As Apprentice: Difficult Loves By/ Italo Calvino -- Margaret Atwood Remembers Marian Engel -- Introduction To Roughing It In The Bush By Susanna Moodie -- True North -- Haunted By Their Nightmares : Beloved, By Toni Morrison -- Afterword To A Jest Of God, By Margaet Laurence -- Preface To The Canadian Green Consumer Guide -- Great Aunts -- Introduction: Reading Blind, The Best American Short Stories -- The Public Woman As Honorary Man: The Warrior Queens, By Antonia Fraser -- Writing Utopia -- A Double-bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter In Two Stories By Thomas King -- Nine Beginnings -- A Slave To His Own Liberation: The General In His Labyrinth, By Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Afterword To Anne Of Green Gables, By Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Introduction: The Early Years, The Poetry Of Gwendolyn Macewen -- Why I Love The Night Of The Hunter -- Spotty-handed Villainesses: Problems Of Female Bad Behaviour In The Creation Of Literature -- The Grunge Look -- Not So Grimm: The Staying Power Of Fairy Tales: From The Beast To The Blonde: On Fairy Tales And Their Tellers, By Marina Warner -- A Rich Dessert From A Saucy Carter: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, By Angela Carter -- An Experiment In Love, By Hilary Mantel -- In Search Of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction -- Masterpiece Theatre: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth And Art And The Gift: Imagination And The Erotic Life Of Property, By Lewis Hyde -- The Awkward Sublime. Mordecai Richler: 1931-2001:diogenes Of Montreal -- Introduction To She, By H. Rider Haggard -- When Afghanistan Was A Peace -- Mystery Man: Some Clues To Dashiell Hammett -- Of Myths And Men: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner -- Cops And Robbers: Tishomingo Blues, By Elmore Leonard -- Tiff And The Animals -- The Indelible Woman: To The Lighthouse, By Virginia Woolf -- The Queen Of Quinkdom: The Birthday Of The World And Other Stories, By Ursula K. Le Guin -- Introduction To Ground Works, Edited By Christian Bok -- The Wrong Box: Matt Cohen, Fabulism, And Critical Taxonomy -- Introduction To Doctor Glas, By Hjalmor Soderberg -- Napoleon's Two Biggest Mistakes -- Letter To America -- Writing Oryx And Crake -- George Orwell: Some Personal Connections -- Arguing Against Ice Cream: Enough: Staying Human In An Engineered Age, By Bill Mckibben -- Foreword: Victory Gardens; A Breath Of Fresh Air, By Elise Houghton -- Carol Shields, Who Died Last Week, Wrote Books That Were Full Of Delights -- Resisting The Veil: Reports From A Revolution -- Introduction To The Complete Stories, Volume 4, By Morley Callaghan -- He Springs Eternal: Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Difficult Times, By Studs Terkel -- To Beechy Island -- Mortification. Margaret Atwood. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff.On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate.

Margaret Atwood. Poems.

A fresh take on what follows Homer’s The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood.Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.

In this ebullient and inventive novel, Gish Jen restores multiculturalism from high concept to a fact of life. At least that's what it becomes for teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, New York, where the Chinese have become "the new Jews." What could be more natural than for Mona to take this literally—even to the point of converting? As Mona attends temple "rap" sessions and falls in love (with a nice Jewish boy who lives in a tepee), Jen introduces us to one of the most charming and sweet-spirited heroines in recent fiction, a girl who can wisecrack with perfect aplomb even when she's organizing the help in her father's pancake house. On every page of Mona in the Promised Land, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's. "A shining example of a multicultural message delivered with the wit and bite of art...Gish Jen creates a particular world where dim sum is as American as apple pie."—Los Angeles Times The author of Typical Americans sets readers' notions of cultural diversity and ethnic identity spinning in Mona in the Promised Land. Moving to Scarshill, New York, with her newly prosperous family, Mona Chang discovers that, in 1968, the Chinese have become the "new Jews." 320 pp. National ads, publicity. 40,000 print.

Thomas King Offers A Deeply Knowing, Darkly Funny, Unabashedly Opinionated, And Utterly Unconventional Account Of Indian-white Relations In North America Since Initial Contact. Both Timeless And Timely, The Inconvenient Indian Ultimately Rejects The Pessimism And Cynicism With Which Natives And Whites Regard One Another To Chart A New And Just Way Forward For Indians And Non-indians Alike.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

"If you’re one of the few who haven’t experienced the genius of Agatha Christie, this novel is a stellar starting point." — DAVID BALDACCI, #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorAn exclusive authorized edition of the most famous and beloved stories from the Queen of Mystery.Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to an isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die…Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?"Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers. . . . Just one book is never enough." — VAL MCDERMID, Internationally Bestselling Author