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Lady Oracle

by: Margaret Atwood (author)

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Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in... show more

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Format: Paperback

Publisher: Virago

Pages no: 345

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, Literature, Cultural, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Feminism, Contemporary, Canada, Canadian Literature

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To Shoot or Not to Shoot rated it

11 years ago

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Not my favourite and so many years since I read it there were only a very few pages I had any memory of. Still a really interesting read and mixes so many different genre styles and themes, covert as well as overt! I read this really quickly so I obviously found it hard to put down. However at botto...

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Books etc. rated it

14 years ago

http://chatgarou.booklikes.com Books etc. 4.0

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I love this book as much as Cat's Eye even though I can only give it 4stars. I believe this one is even better because it has humorous sides whereas cat's eye is mainly grey and gloomy.

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22 years ago

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I remember liking this book when I first read it, but honestly couldn't tell you what it was about, which just goes to show how much it stuck with me.

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A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books rated it

43 years ago

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[These notes were made in 1982:]. Although still contemptuous of Canadian literature in general (old habits die hard), I find I begin to appreciate certain particular authors, and Margaret Atwood is definitely one of them. She has the uncanny knack of making each of her novels seem autobiographical...

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