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Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385491085

ISBN-139780385491082

eBay Product ID (ePID)466094

Product Key Features

Book TitleLady Oracle

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Contemporary Women, Literary, Humorous / General

Publication Year1998

GenreFiction

AuthorMargaret Atwood

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-048403

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"A rich, subtle, deep, delicate, nourishing book. It's all joy, but it stays with you. She has things to tell us." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Brilliant and funny. I can't tell you how exhilarating it was to read it--everything works. An extraordinary book." --Joan Didion "A very funny novel, lightly told with wry detachment and considerable art." -- The Washington Post Book World "Funny, poignant, and briskly energetic." --Newsweek

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale Joan Foster is a woman with numerous identities and a talent for shedding them at will. She has written trashy gothic romances, had affairs with a Polish count and an absurd avant-garde artist, and played at being a politically engaged partner to her activist husband. After a volume of her poetry becomes an unexpected literary sensation, her new fame attracts a blackmailer threatening to reveal her secrets. Joan's response is to fake her own death and flee to a hill town in Italy. But what at first seems to be just another attempt to escape herself becomes instead an occasion for confronting the self-deception that has driven her since childhood. Studded with hair-raising comic escapades and piercing psychological insights, Lady Oracle is both hilarious and profound., From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments-- the "brilliant and funny" story (Joan Didion, bestselling author of Let Me Tell You What I Mean ) of a woman whose attempts to escape herself become instead an occasion for confronting the self-deception that has driven her since childhood Joan Foster is a woman with numerous identities and a talent for shedding them at will. She has written trashy gothic romances, had affairs with a Polish count and an absurd avant-garde artist, and played at being a politically engaged partner to her activist husband. After a volume of her poetry becomes an unexpected literary sensation, her new fame attracts a blackmailer threatening to reveal her secrets. Joan's response is to fake her own death and flee to a hill town in Italy. Studded with hair-raising comic escapades and piercing psychological insights, Lady Oracle is both hilarious and profound., Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time.

LC Classification NumberPR9199.3.A8L3 1998