Book Preview BY MARGARET ATWOOD FICTION The Edible Woman Surfacing Lady Oracle Dancing Girls Life Before Man Bodily Harm Murder in the Dark Bluebeard’s Egg The Handmaid’s Tale Cat’s Eye Wilderness Tips Good Bones The Robber Bride Alias Grace The Blind Assassin Good Bones and Simple Murders Oryx and Crake The Penelopiad The Tent Moral … Read more
Book Preview Synopsis: First published in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. With more than two million copies in print, it is Margaret Atwood’s most popular and compelling novel. Set in the near future, it describes life in what … Read more
Book Preview Part One The bridge The Toronto Star, 1945 The Blind Assassin: Perennials for the Rock Garden Part Two The hard-boiled egg The Globe and Mail, 1947 The park bench The Toronto Star, 1975 The carpets The Globe and Mail, 1998 The lipstick heart The Colonel Henry Parkman High School Home and School and … Read more
Book Preview Oryx and Crake: a novel Margaret Atwood For my family I could perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you. Jonathan Swift, … Read more