The Edible Woman - Brossura

Atwood, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 0385491069 ISBN 13: 9780385491068

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

Riassunto

A humorous, ironic, disturbing, and parabolic novel features a woman who, after her engagement to be wed, first loses her appetite and then becomes obsessed with the idea that she herself is being eaten. Reissue.

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Recensione:

"Margaret Atwood takes risks and wins." —Time

"Throughout her literary career...Margaret Atwood has impressed and delighted readers with her wit, lyric virtuosity and imaginative acuity." —San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century." —Vogue

"Atwood has the magic of turning the particular and the parochial into the universal." —The Times (London)

"Chock-full of startling images, superbly and classically crafted. . . . Kept me in stitches half the time." —Saturday Night

L'autore:

Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, her novels include Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood; and her most recent, MaddAddam. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award, and lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson. 

www.margaretatwood.ca

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385491069
• ISBN 13: 9780385491068
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320