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A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St.
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Classical in form, contemporary, prestige and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 301
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Vintage, Bantam Books
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- French, cze, und, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780771008122
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“This is how I got here, says Rennie.”
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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