| Lady Oracle Contributor(s): Atwood, Margaret (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385491085 ISBN-13: 9780385491082 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97048403 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.15" W x 8.04" (0.55 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 58653 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 20.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From 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. |