Lady Oracle - Softcover

Margaret Atwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860683036 ISBN 13: 9780860683032

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1982

Synopsis

From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of romances to distinguished poet - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identiities. She decides to escape to an Italain hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organise her own death...

About this title

From the Publisher

New in this edition: a Reader's Companion to Lady Oracle--ideal for discussion groups

"Funny, poignant, and briskly energetic."
--Newsweek

"A rich, subtle, deep, delicate, nourishing book. It's all joy, but it stays with you. She has things to tell us."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

"A really gifted writer...alternately satirical and lyrical."
--Time

"A very funny novel, lightly told with wry detachment and considerable art."
--Washington Post Book World

"Brilliant and funny. I can't tell you how exhilarating it was to read it --everything works. An extraordinary book."
--Joan Didion

From the Back Cover

“A wonderfully unpretentious comic romp. A fine novel: inventive, funny, and a pleasure to read.”
–Mordecai Richler

“Read it for its gracefulness, for its good story, for its help in your fantasy life.”
– Globe and Mail

“Brilliant and funny, I can’t tell you how exhilarating it was to read it – everything works. An extraordinary book.”
–Joan Didion

“A haunting and humorous work.”
– Toronto Star

“A striking work.”
– Time

“Hilarious, touching, full of wonderfully skewered insights, and very much faster than a speeding bullet.”
– Cosmopolitan

“Nervy, mordant, funny and brilliant.”
– Ms.

“Immensely enjoyable.”
– San Francisco Examiner

“Funny, poignant and briskly energetic.”
– Newsweek

“A very funny novel, lightly told with wry detachment and considerable art.”
– Washington Post Book World

“A rich, subtle, deep, delicate, nourishing book. It’s all joy, but it stays with you. She has things to tell us.”
– Philadelphia Enquirer

“Marvellously funny.”
– Maclean’s

Edition details

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860683036
• ISBN 13: 9780860683032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350