Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction,
poetry and critical essays.
In addition to the classic The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include
Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the 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 and Oryx and Crake,
shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her most recent novel, The
Year of the Flood, was published in 2009. She was awarded the
Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008.
Atwood takes Penelope's part with tremendous verve . . . she
explores the very nature of mythic story-telling
* * Guardian * *
As potent as a curse
* * Sunday Times * *
Fabulous . . . Determinedly irreverent
* * New York Times * *
A witty desecration . . . Atwood plays with vigour and
ingenuity
* * Observer * *
Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood
heroine
* * Spectator * *
Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives
* * Independent * *
Atwood and all authors named above are able to grasp the female
experience perfectly in myths dominated by men, creating
beautifully rounded and realistic characters from those created as
ornaments and prizes by Homer
* * The Courier * *
Nothing short of genius
* * Week * *
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