Bodily Harm - Softcover

Atwood, Margaret

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8,331 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553274554 ISBN 13: 9780553274554

Publisher: Bantam, 1983

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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.

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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

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"One of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century." --Vogue

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

"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.

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