The Penelopiad - Brossura

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

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ISBN 10: 1841957984 ISBN 13: 9781841957982

Casa editrice: Canongate Books Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin presents a cycle of stories about Penelope, wife of Odysseus, through the eyes of the twelve maids hanged for disloyalty to Odysseus in his absence. Reprint.

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Half-Dorothy Parker, half-Desperate Housewives.” The Independent (UK)

By turns slyly funny and fiercely indignant, Ms. Atwood’s imaginative, ingeniously constructed deconstruction’ of the old tale reveals it in a new and refreshingly different light.” The Washington Times

Here at the outset of the twenty-first century, with everyone else looking forward with great intensity and hoping to predict what our mysterious future might bring is Margaret Atwood, one of the most admired practi­tioners of the novel in North America, taking the measure of the old Odyssey itself with a steady gaze and asking the reader to follow forthwith, even as she coolly rewrites that oral epic from the point of view of the hero’s wife.” Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune

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Book by Atwood Margaret

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• Editore: Canongate Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1841957984
• ISBN 13: 9781841957982
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 199