Lady OracleAn original and compelling work in which Margaret Atwood passes one woman’s bizarre life through the prism of her unique literary vision. The shy, awkward wife of a perpetual radical, Joan Foster is a formerly obese woman whose delicate equilibrium is threatened by the fact that the several lives she has lived separately and secretly are coming together and will be exposed. She is newly and notoriously famous as a bestselling author; she writes gothic novels under a nom de plume; she is having a hidden affair. Love, fear, understanding, suspense, sensuality, and humour – there is hardly an emotional current that is not touched in Lady Oracle, and with a depth, vitality, and wit that are rare in any time. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 19 |
Section 3 | 27 |
Section 4 | 39 |
Section 5 | 51 |
Section 6 | 65 |
Section 7 | 80 |
Section 8 | 93 |
Section 20 | 228 |
Section 21 | 241 |
Section 22 | 250 |
Section 23 | 261 |
Section 24 | 270 |
Section 25 | 280 |
Section 26 | 290 |
Section 27 | 301 |
Section 9 | 107 |
Section 10 | 119 |
Section 11 | 133 |
Section 12 | 141 |
Section 13 | 149 |
Section 14 | 159 |
Section 15 | 171 |
Section 16 | 183 |
Section 17 | 194 |
Section 18 | 203 |
Section 19 | 220 |
Section 28 | 314 |
Section 29 | 329 |
Section 30 | 336 |
Section 31 | 342 |
Section 32 | 348 |
Section 33 | 351 |
Section 34 | 356 |
Section 35 | 360 |
Section 36 | 364 |
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