- Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Married people, Middle-aged women
Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man.
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Spare, intimate, contemporary and grave.
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Éditions R. Laffont, Zysk I S-ka, ROBERT LAFFONT
- Editions
- 50
- Language
- Polish, fin, Dutch, Russian
- ISBN
- 9782890262898
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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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