Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Throughout her thirty years of writing, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and several honorary degrees. She is the author of more than twenty-five volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996). Her newest novel, The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize, was published in the fall of 2000. Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002), published by Cambridge University Press in March 2002, is her latest book and her next novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in April 2003. She has an uncanny knack for writing books that anticipate the popular preoccupations of her public. [Read more]

Alias Grace
Nan A. Talese, 1996, hardcover (PhP 150.00)
"Alias Grace" is a beautifully crafted work of the imagination that reclaims a profoundly mysterious and disturbing story from the past century. With compassion, an unsentimental lyricism, and her customary narrative virtuosity, Margaret Atwood mines the often convoluted relationships between men and women, and between the affluent and those without position. The result is her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since "The Handmaid's Tale"--in short, vintage Atwood.

Bodily Harm
Bantam Books, 1981 (PhP 80.00)
A powerful and brilliantly crafted novel from the author of "Surfacing," "Life Before Man," "The Edible Woman," and "Lady Oracle," "Bodily Harm" is the story or Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie Wilford flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine, she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's new novel is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.

Cat's Eye
Bantam Books, 1989 (PhP 80.00)
Margaret Atwood follows her international bestseller "The Handmaid's Tale" with a breathtaking contemporary novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her own life. Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all, she must seek release from Cordelia's haunting memory. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, "Cat's Eye" is Margaret Atwood's most deeply felt work of fiction to date.

The Edible Woman
Warner Books, 1969 (PhP 80.00)
Her name is Marian. She's a very proper young woman. The only man she sleeps with is the one she's going to marry. The only thing she wants from her work is to leave it as soon as possible. The only future she has to look forward to is the same kind that all her friends have settled for: tied to a home and children. Then something happens. It begins with a sexual encounter as exhilarating as it is unexpected. And it keeps getting wilder and wilder.

The Robber Bride
Bantam Books, 1993 (PhP 80.00)
Roz, Charis, and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Beautiful, smart, and hungry, by tyrns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the turbulent center of her own neverending saga. She entered their lives in the sixties, when they were in college. Over the three decades since, she has damaged each of them badly, ensnaring their sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men as loot. Then Zenia dies, or at any rate the three women--with much relief--attend her funeral. But as "The Robber Bride" begins, Roz, Charis, and Tony have come together at a trendy restaurant for their monthly lunch when in walks the seemingly resurrected Zenia. In this consistently entertaining and profound new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the war between the sexes with her characteristic well-crafted prose, rich and devious humor, and compassion.