Lady Oracle - Hardcover

Atwood, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771008155 ISBN 13: 9780771008153

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1976

Synopsis

"Love, fear, understanding, suspense, sensuality and humour - there is hardly an emotional current that is not touched in "Lady Oracle," and with a depth, vitality and wit that are rare in any time." [from the front flap]

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 Inside Flap:

Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber.  She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy.  In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0771008155
• ISBN 13: 9780771008153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 345