From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Dancing Girls and Other Stories showcases Margaret Atwood's masterly skill for storytelling. Students, journalists, farmers, birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people. Or are they? In brilliant flashes of fantasy, humour and unexpected violence, Margaret Atwood reveals the complex…
The basic plot centres around Dr Simon Jordan, an enthusiastic young American doctor with an absorbing interest in the treatment of the mentally ill. He is intrigued by the story of convicted young murderess Grace Marks, incarcerated for life in Kingston Penitentiary, near Toronto, for her part in the murders of her former employer and his housekeeper. Grace, who was just 15 at the time, claims…
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel, a work of science fiction or speculative fiction,written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near future, in a totalitarian Christian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they…
a literary periodical begun in Tangier in 1969 by Paul Bowles in association with the publisher Drue Heinz and Daniel Halpern, who has remained its principal editor. The first issue, published in 1970, was followed by a further sixty prior to the appearance of the substantial and attractively produced Antaeus: Jubilee Edition in 1990. Among the authors of prose fiction whose work has been featu…