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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 1996
Kirkus Star ALIAS GRACE
by Margaret Atwood
"Through characteristically elegant prose and a mix of narrative techniques, Atwood not only crafts an eerie, unsettling tale of murder and obsession, but also a stunning portrait of the lives of women in another time."
A fascinating elaboration—and somewhat of a departure for Atwood (The Robber Bride, 1993, etc.)—of the life of Grace Marks, one of Canada's more infamous killers. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 3, 1991
Kirkus Star WILDERNESS TIPS
by Margaret Atwood
"Pure Atwood."
An effective, uniformly controlled collection of ten stories from the author of, most recently, Cat's Eye (1989). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 17, 1988
Kirkus Star CAT'S EYE
by Margaret Atwood
"All the better Atwood trademarks are here—wry humor, unforgiving detailed observation, a tart prose style—and likely to attract a wide audience."
Atwood's wide-screen, cautionary Handmaid's Tale (1986) confirmed the author's place in the major leagues, and here she follows up with a work of intensity and tart wit. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 17, 1986
Kirkus Star BLUEBEARD'S EGG
by Margaret Atwood
"Through most of Atwood's undistinguished second collection of short fiction runs her feminist sense of angst and alienation; occasional stabs at mitigating humor mostly miss their mark."
Atwood (Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale, etc.) here adds two new stories to a collection first published in her native Canada in 1983. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 17, 1985
THE HANDMAID'S TALE
by Margaret Atwood
"Tinny perhaps, but still a minutely rendered and impressively steady feminist vision of apocalypse."
The time is the not-so-distant future, when the US's spiraling social freedoms have finally called down a reaction, an Iranian-style repressive "monotheocracy" calling itself the Republic of Gilead—a Bible-thumping, racist, capital-punishing, and misogynistic rule that would do away with pleasure altogether were it not for one thing: that the Gileadan women, pure and true (as opposed to all the nonbelieving women, those who've ever been adulterous or married more than once), are found rarely fertile. Read full book review >
Cover art for LIFE BEFORE MAN
FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1979
Kirkus Star LIFE BEFORE MAN
by Margaret Atwood
"Monumentally depressing, thoroughly gifted work from a very special novelist."
If there are such things as "poet's novels," Margaret Atwood writes them. Read full book review >