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"Margaret Atwood is one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herelf the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century."
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Joan Foster, a secret writer of Gothic romances, has been suddenly thrust into the limelight, when her outrageously feminist book, LADY ORACLE becomes a bestseller. In a daring move to escape her past, Joan fakes her own death and begins a new life. With a much-needed respite from familiarity, Joan Foster begins to examine her life, and what she reveals to herself will stay with her forever....
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Joan Foster, a secret writer of Gothic romances, has been suddenly thrust into the limelight, when her outrageously feminist book, LADY ORACLE becomes a bestseller. In a daring move to escape her past, Joan fakes her own death and begins a new life. With a much-needed respite from familiarity, Joan Foster begins to examine her life, and what she reveals to herself will stay with her forever....
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"A rich, subtle, deep, delicate, nourishing book. It's all joy, but it stays with you. She has things to tell us." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Brilliant and funny. I can't tell you how exhilarating it was to read it--everything works. An extraordinary book." --Joan Didion "A very funny novel, lightly told with wry detachment and considerable art." --The Washington Post Book World "Funny, poignant, and briskly energetic." --Newsweek
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- PublisherAnchor Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0385491085
- ISBN 13 9780385491082
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamentsthe "brilliant and funny" story (Joan Didion, bestselling author of Let Me Tell You What I Mean) of a woman whose attempts to escape herself become instead an occasion for confronting the self-deception that has driven her since childhoodJoan 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. Joans response is to fake her own death and flee to a hill town in Italy. Studded with hair-raising comic escapades and piercing psychological insights, Lady Oracle is both hilarious and profound. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780385491082
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