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Product Identifiers

PublisherMcClelland & Stewart

ISBN-10077100821X

ISBN-139780771008214

eBay Product ID (ePID)6038719313

Product Key Features

TopicLiterary, Humorous / General

Publication Year1993

Book TitleRobber Bride

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorMargaret Atwood

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight8.8 Oz

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Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Atwood has never written better than in this novel of glittering breadth and dark, eerie depths." The Sunday Times(U.K.) "A remarkable achievement, constantly entertaining and intriguing." The Ottawa Citizen "Deserves every superlative we can muster fromhilarioustowise.â€¦Agenuine tour de force, witty and original, suspenseful and sagacious." Booklist "Funny, thoughtful, movingâ€¦Atwood's plotting is masterful, and her humor is razor-edged, sexy, and raucous." Washington Post "Nobody maps female psychic territory the way Margaret Atwood does.â€¦What a treasure she is." Newsweek "A hugely enjoyable novel." Globe and Mail "Imaginative and suspensefulâ€¦a virtuoso performance." Publishers Weekly "Wickedly funnyâ€¦wittyâ€¦well-observed." Observer(U.K.) "Brilliant and entertaining." Boston Sunday Globe "Grabs the funny bone, the brain, and sometimes the throat." KingstonWhig-Standard "Brilliant and entertaining." Ottawa Sun "Startling, provocative and rewarding." Canadian Forum "Excitements, wit, and insight sizzle across the pages. Atwood's survey of impulses that bedevil life seethes with imagination, inventiveness and intelligence." -Peter Kemp "Compelling and astonishingly richâ€¦" Books in Canada

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThis is the wise, unsettling, drastic story of three women whose lives share a common wound: Zenia, a woman they first met as university students in the sixties. Zenia is smart and beautiful, by turns manipulative, vulnerable and irresistible. She has entered into their separate lives to ensnare their sympathy, betray their trust, and exploit their weaknesses. Now Zenia, thought dead, has suddenly reappeared. In this richly layered narrative, Atwood skilfully evokes the decades of the past as she retraces three women's lives, until we are back in the present where it's yet to be discovered whether Zenia's "pure, free-wheeling malevolence" can still wreak havoc.The Robber Bridereports from the farthest reaches of the sex wars and is one of Margaret Atwood's most intricate and subversive novels yet.