- Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Unemployment, Prisons
"Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in...for six months out of the year."--
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Contemporary, classical in form, cool and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Berlin Verlag, Dogan Kitap, McClelland & Stewart
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, Polish, French
- ISBN
- 9788380320918
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, including 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her work has been published in over 40 countries, and a number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel *The Handmaid's Tale,* and her novels also include *Cat's Eye,* shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the
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