The author's trademark smirk behind the economical prose can be wearying over the course of an entire collection, but taken separately, the pieces here are solid evidence of the author in full form. Like Alice Munro, Atwood has a talent for serving up the nuances of bourgeois Ontario culture, but with Atwood the ingredients are boiled down into a stronger and much more acerbic brew. And 'Hack Wednesday' revolves around a disgruntled journalist brought, whimsically, to the brink of an affair before she backs off-not from any pangs of conscience but out of lethargic concern for the work involved in carrying it off. In 'True Trash,' a young woman encounters a youth who is still unaware that he had impregnated a camp employee many years earlier. 'Hairball,' the most disturbing here, involves the dissolution of a woman's affair with a married man the otherwise naturalistic posture of the story is powerfully undercut by the presence of a removed tumor that the young lady keeps in a jar, eventually sending it, neatly wrapped, to her lover's wife. In 'Wilderness Tips,' a middle-aged woman is bluntly confronted with her husband's infidelity. Virtually all the pieces focus on the lives of women equivocally connected to the men around them. Gathered here are pieces previously appearing in top short- story forums-The New Yorker, Granta, Saturday Night, Playboy-providing an excellent sampling of high-proof Atwood. Urn:oclc:774912191 Scandate 20111010152622 Scanner effective, uniformly controlled collection of ten stories from the author of, most recently, Cat's Eye (1989). OL675737W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 82.84 Pages 232 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1841958115 Urn:lcp:penelopiad00atwo:epub:b13e0c51-5147-4ab0-8ec4-ff0e716cb9c2 Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier penelopiad00atwo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t23b71t6f Isbn 1841957178 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL22732648M Openlibrary_edition

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The penelopiad by margaret atwood