Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood (1981, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
ISBN-100771008120
ISBN-139780771008122
eBay Product ID (ePID)2450832
Product Key Features
TopicContemporary Women, General, Literary
Publication Year1981
Book TitleBodily Harm
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorMargaret Atwood
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Passionate and convincing." -Maclean's "The consciousness that informs the novel is vivid, palpable." -New York Times Book Review "As swift-moving as the best thriller, clipped and laconic, yet deeply and richly sensitive." -Sunday Telegraph(U.K.) "Superior writing, terrifying suspense." -Atlantic Monthly "Margaret Atwood seems to be able to do just about everything: people, places, problems, a perfect ear, an exactly right voice." -The New York Times "An overwhelming novel…possessing Atwood's usual ability to harness the energy of language and implication… with remarkable insight and sensitivity." -Quill and Quire "Time and again the reader is impressed by the sheer virtuosity and skill of Atwood's writing." -Calgary Herald "Sophisticated, superbly orchestrated.…" -Saturday Review "Striking, stringent, sharp… infused with intelligence and insight." -Vancouver Sun "Skilfully written, mordantly witty and immensely readable." -London Free Press "What makes her book so considerable an achievement is the mature, informed accuracy of its view of life. What makes it so exhilarating is the profusion of tough wit and precise poetry that everywhere transforms its black bulletins from documentary into art." -Times Literary Supplement(U.K.)
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisRennie Wilford is a freelance journalist who takes an assignment in the Caribbean in the hopes of recuperating from her recently shattered life. On the tiny island of St. Antoine, she tumbles into a corrupt world where no one is what they seem, where her rules for survival no longer apply. This is a thoroughly gripping novel of intrigue and betrayal, which explores human defensiveness, the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for a compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love. The enigma unfolds as it would for any innocent bystander swept up by events, bringing along the scruples, and the fears, of the past.
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