Lady Oracle
Mar 2012 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award–winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series—comes a darkly comic novel about a bored wife, secret novelist, and overnight literary sensation who must fake her own death to escape her tangled web of identities.
Joan Foster is a bored wife confused by her life of multiple identities. She becomes a literary sensation overnight as Canada’s newest superpoet, while also secretly authoring lurid gothic romances on the sly. When a blackmailing reporter threatens to unravel her carefully divided lives, Joan tumbles through menacing schemes, perilous traps, and passionate affairs before fleeing to Terremoto, Italy—but first, she must plan her own death.
Darkly comic, poetic, and enchanting, this unforgettable novel showcases Margaret Atwood at her most imaginative and incisive.
Joan Foster is a bored wife confused by her life of multiple identities. She becomes a literary sensation overnight as Canada’s newest superpoet, while also secretly authoring lurid gothic romances on the sly. When a blackmailing reporter threatens to unravel her carefully divided lives, Joan tumbles through menacing schemes, perilous traps, and passionate affairs before fleeing to Terremoto, Italy—but first, she must plan her own death.
Darkly comic, poetic, and enchanting, this unforgettable novel showcases Margaret Atwood at her most imaginative and incisive.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award–winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series—comes a darkly comic novel about a bored wife, secret novelist, and overnight literary sensation who must fake her own death to escape he...
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Robert V Marrow
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March 19, 2025
mysterious but fun to ravel and unravel.
About the author
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in over thirty-five countries, is the award-winning author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, which was made into a TV series, her novels include Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake, and The Robber Bride. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once for The Blind Assassin. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in over thirty-five countries, is the award-winning author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, which was made into a TV series, her novels include Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crak...
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