FICTION
Released: Nov. 10, 1993
"Amusing sometimes, but flogged and padded—hardly one of Atwood's better efforts."
Antonia (Tony), Karen (Charis), and Roz are three 50-ish Toronto friends, pals since college, all of whom have had to negotiate (and none too well) the treacheries of another friend, Zenia—someone who in the past has stolen a significant man from each of the others.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 8, 1998
"A minor, if intriguing, footnote to two impressive careers."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2000
"Boldly imagined and brilliantly executed."
Atwood's skillfully woven tenth novel is her most ambitious and challenging work to date, and a worthy successor to her recent triumph,
Alias Grace (1996).
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 22, 2000
"A tale of two magnificently imagined characters, and a plaintive love song to (and vivid re-creation of) the fractious ethnic energy of New York City a half century ago. "
A stroke of sheer conceptual genius links the themes of illusion and escape with that of the European immigrant experience of America in this huge, enthralling third novel from the author of
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) and
Wonder Boys (1994).
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FICTION
Released: May 6, 2003
"A landmark work of speculative fiction, comparable to A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World, and Russian revolutionary Zamyatin's We. Atwood has surpassed herself."
Environmental unconcern, genetic engineering, and bioterrorism have created the hollowed-out, haunted future world of Atwood's ingenious and disturbing 11th novel, bearing several resemblances to
The Handmaid's Tale (1985).
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 9, 2003
"A Love Story for educated, upper-middle-class tastes; with a movie sale to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, it could have some of that long-ago book's commercial potential, too."
Mainstreamed time-travel romance, cleverly executed and tastefully furnished if occasionally overwrought: a first from fine newcomer Niffenegger.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2006
"A novel of horrific beauty, where death is the only truth."
Even within the author's extraordinary body of work, this stands as a radical achievement, a novel that demands to be read and reread.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2007
"A page-turning noir, with a twist of Yiddish, that satisfies on many levels."
Imagine a mutant strain of Dashiell Hammett crossed with Isaac Bashevis Singer, as one of the most imaginative contemporary novelists extends his fascination with classic pulp.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 22, 2009
"Another stimulating dystopia from this always-provocative author, whose complex, deeply involving characters inhabit a bizarre yet frighteningly believable future."
