One of the most important writers in English today' GERMAINE GREER An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of romances to distinguished poet - Joan Foster is confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organise her own death.
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One of the most important writers in English today' GERMAINE GREER An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of romances to distinguished poet - Joan Foster is confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organise her own death.
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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace
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The trick was to disappear without a trace, leaving behind me the shadow of a corpse, a shadow everyone would mistake for solid reality. At first I thought I'd managed it.
Fat girl, thin girl. Red hair, brown hair. Polish aristocrat, radical husband. Joan Foster has dozens of different identities, and she's utterly confused by them all. After a life spent running away from difficult situations, she decides to escape to a hill town in Italy to take stock of her life.
But first she must carefully arrange her own death.
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'A mistress of controlled hysteria' - Time
'If you feel safe only with "nine to five" reality, you'll probably not enjoy her books. But if you'd like to lift off, try her' - Cosmopolitan
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“If you feel safe only with "nine to five" reality, you'll probably not enjoy her books. But if you'd like to lift off, try her - COSMOPOLITANShrewd, funny, intelligent, honest, ironic - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY”
'If you feel safe only with "nine to five" reality, you'll probably not enjoy her books. But if you'd like to lift-off, try her' COSMOPOLITAN 'One of the most important writers in English today' GERMAINE GREER 'A really gifted writer...a mistress of controlled hysteria' TIME 'Shrewd, funny, intelligent, honest, ironic' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
About the Author
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939. She is Canada's most eminent novelist and poet and has published more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages. Her latest novel, The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize.
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of romances to distinguished poet - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identiities. She decides to escape to an Italain hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organise her own death...
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