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Bodily Harm
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1996 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092001-08-11
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Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.
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The Blind Assassin
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20142013-07-04
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The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20142014-10-20
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Margaret Atwood's latest brilliant collection of short stories follows the life of a single character, seen as a girl growing up the 1930s, a young woman in the 50s and 60s, and, in the present day, half of a couple, no longer young, reflecting on the new state of the world. Each story focuses on the ways relationships transform a character's life: a woman's complex love for a married man, the grief upon the death of parents and the joy with the birth of children, the realization of what growing old with someone you love really means. By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood's celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage.
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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2006 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20082009-04-29
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In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope — wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy — is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumours, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and — curiously — twelve of her maids. In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids, asking: 'What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?' In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the storytelling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality — and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.
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The Blind Assassin
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2001 Страниц: 656 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092003-07-28
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Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.
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The Door
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122010-06-11
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THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. As the New York Times has said, 'Atwood's poems are short, glistening with terse, bright images'. A brave and compassionate book, THE DOOR interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on.
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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2012 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20152015-09-02
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From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: 'Flying Rabbits' begins with her early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; 'Burning Bushes' travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and 'Dire Cartographies' investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood's own ventures into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and critiques the form, and elucidates the differences — as she sees them — between 'science fiction' proper, and 'speculative fiction', not to mention 'sword and sorcery', 'fantasy' and 'slipstream fiction'. In Other Worlds is a must.
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Oryx and Crake
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 376 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20082006-05-18
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Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey — with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake — through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.
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The Edible Woman
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1980 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20091982-10-07
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Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and desire to be consumed.
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Good Bones
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2010 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20122012-05-06
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These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), and theology, amongst other matters. We hear Gertrude's version of what really happened in Hamlet; an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves,and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong. Good Bones is pure distilled Atwood — deliciously strong and bittersweet.
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Oryx and Crake
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 436 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20162017-03-28
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Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.
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Surfacing
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2007 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092010-02-29
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A young woman returns to northern Quebec to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she begins to realise that going home means entering not only another place but another time. As the wild island exerts its elemental hold and she is submerged in the language of the wilderness, she sees that what she is really looking for is her own past.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20132012-07-28
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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire — neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
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MaddAddam
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2014 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20162015-06-23
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A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers — a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the God's Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers' reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer assault; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack. Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood's unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world — a moving and dramatic conclusion to the internationally celebrated trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.
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Robber Bride
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1994 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20091996-07-24
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This novel follows three women in Toronto whose lives are badly affected by the mischief of their former university friend. When she dies they assume that their troubles are over, but then she reappears, apparently more malevolent than ever. Other works by the author include The Handmaid`s Tale.
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