it is definitely a fine book, i can tell that already. the narrator has me completely hooked.
what the hell happened with the third child? i wonder if she's getting up there, starting to lose her marbles a bit...
the only other thing of hers i've read is braided lives. i read that back in 1986 or so. it was part of my eldest sister's library. she died in november of 1985, and one of the ways i grieved and tried to re-conjure her in my life was by reading her books. that's how i got to know atwood (bodily harm and the handmaid's tale; i also remember reading marilyn french's the women's room, which is like an epic of 2nd wave feminism, in case you haven't read it. (i guess that's not surprising since, according to the wiki entry about french (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_French), she wrote that book just after writing what looks like a scholarly book--perhaps a dissertation?--about james joyce's ulysses. hmm. i wonder what she had to say about the molly/penelope chapter...)
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Date: 2007-03-09 09:36 pm (UTC)what the hell happened with the third child? i wonder if she's getting up there, starting to lose her marbles a bit...
the only other thing of hers i've read is braided lives. i read that back in 1986 or so. it was part of my eldest sister's library. she died in november of 1985, and one of the ways i grieved and tried to re-conjure her in my life was by reading her books. that's how i got to know atwood (bodily harm and the handmaid's tale; i also remember reading marilyn french's the women's room, which is like an epic of 2nd wave feminism, in case you haven't read it. (i guess that's not surprising since, according to the wiki entry about french (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_French), she wrote that book just after writing what looks like a scholarly book--perhaps a dissertation?--about james joyce's ulysses. hmm. i wonder what she had to say about the molly/penelope chapter...)