Bodily Harm (Contemporary Classics) - Softcover

Margaret Atwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099740818 ISBN 13: 9780099740810

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1996

Synopsis

Rennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) Offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Romance and adventure by a female Graham Greene."
-Marilyn French

"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

"Sophisticated, superbly orchestrated--Atwood's richest, most fully realized work."
-Saturday Review

From the Inside Flap:

A powerful and brilliantly crafted new novel from the author of Surfacing, Life Before Man, The Edible Woman, and Lady Oracle. Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie Wilford flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine, she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's new novel is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0099740818
• ISBN 13: 9780099740810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304