Lady Oracle - Rilegato

Atwood, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 0771008155 ISBN 13: 9780771008153

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart, 1976

Riassunto

An original and compelling work in which Margaret Atwood passes one woman’s bizarre life through the prism of her unique literary vision. The shy, awkward wife of a perpetual radical, Joan Foster is a formerly obese woman whose delicate equilibrium is threatened by the fact that the several lives she has lived separately and secretly are coming together and will be exposed. She is newly and notoriously famous as a bestselling author; she writes gothic novels under a nom de plume; she is having a hidden affair. Love, fear, understanding, suspense, sensuality, and humour – there is hardly an emotional current that is not touched in Lady Oracle, and with a depth, vitality, and wit that are rare in any time.

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Recensione:

“A wonderfully unpretentious comic romp. A fine novel: inventive, funny, and a pleasure to read.”
–Mordecai Richler

“Read it for its gracefulness, for its good story, for its help in your fantasy life.”
–Globe and Mail

“Brilliant and funny, I can’t tell you how exhilarating it was to read it – everything works. An extraordinary book.”
–Joan Didion

“A haunting and humorous work.”
–Toronto Star

“A striking work.”
–Time

“Hilarious, touching, full of wonderfully skewered insights, and very much faster than a speeding bullet.”
–Cosmopolitan

“Nervy, mordant, funny and brilliant.”
–Ms.

“Immensely enjoyable.”
–San Francisco Examiner

“Funny, poignant and briskly energetic.”
–Newsweek

“A very funny novel, lightly told with wry detachment and considerable art.”
–Washington Post Book World

“A rich, subtle, deep, delicate, nourishing book. It’s all joy, but it stays with you. She has things to tell us.”
–Philadelphia Enquirer

“Marvellously funny.”
–Maclean’s

L'autore:

Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

She is the author of more than forty books — novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye — both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride, winner of the Trillium Book Award and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award; Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and Oryx and Crake, a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Orange Prize, and the Man Booker Prize. Her most recent books of fiction are The Penelopiad, The Tent, and Moral Disorder. She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England.

Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.

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• Editore: McClelland & Stewart
• Data di pubblicazione: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0771008155
• ISBN 13: 9780771008153
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida