Bodily Harm - Softcover

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771008376 ISBN 13: 9780771008375

Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Rennie Wilford is a freelance journalist who takes an assignment in the Caribbean in the hopes of recuperating from her recently shattered life. On the tiny island of St. Antoine, she tumbles into a corrupt world where no one is what they seem, where her rules for survival no longer apply. This is a thoroughly gripping novel of intrigue and betrayal, which explores human defensiveness, the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for a compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love. The enigma unfolds as it would for any innocent bystander swept up by events, bringing along the scruples, and the fears, of the past.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this title

Review:

"This is a story about one of today's women...Bodily Harm is strong stuff, and the writing is nearly flawless."
--People

"It knocked me out. Margaret Atwood seems to be able to do just about everything: people, places, problems, a perfect ear, an exactly right voice."
--Anatole Broyard, The New York Times

"Romance and adventure by a female Graham Greene at his peak."
--Marilyn French, author of The Women's Room

"Superior writing, terrifying suspense."
--The Atlantic Monthly

"Secures her place in the upper ranks of important novelists."
--Cosmopolitan

Book Description:

'As swift-moving as the best thriller, clipped and laconic, yet deeply and richly sensitive' - Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0771008376
• ISBN 13: 9780771008375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306