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The Edible Woman
“[The Edible Woman] is chock-full of startling images, superbly and classically crafted.…”
–Saturday Night
“Few writers are able to combine wit and humour … Margaret Atwood is a poet and novelist who seems to be able to do anything she wants.”
–Newsweek
“A pleasure.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“Funny, sharp, witty, clever.”
–The Times
“Marked by a keen eye for evocative details which cohere into vivid incidents.”
–Canadian Forum
“[Atwood is] a subtle and penetrating observer of relationships between men and women.”
–Sunday Times
“Delightful – spare, precise, mordantly witty.… Exquisitely written.”
–Journal of Canadian Fiction
“[Atwood] knows exactly what she is doing with every phrase.”
–Vancouver Sun
BOOKS BY MARGARET ATWOOD
FICTION
The Edible Woman (1969)
Surfacing (1972)
Lady Oracle (1976)
Dancing Girls (1977)
Life Before Man (1979)
Bodily Harm (1981)
Murder in the Dark (1983)
Bluebeard’s Egg (1983)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Cat’s Eye (1988)
Wilderness Tips (1991)
Good Bones (1992)
The Robber Bride (1993)
Alias Grace (1996)
The Blind Assassin (2000)
Good Bones and Simple Murders (2001)
Oryx and Crake (2003)
The Penelopiad (2005)
The Tent (2006)
Moral Disorder (2006)
The Year of the Flood (2009)
FOR CHILDREN
Up in the Tree (1978)
Anna’s Pet (with Joyce Barkhouse) (1980)
For the Birds (1990)
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2004)
NON-FICTION
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Days of the Rebels 1815–1840 (1977)
Second Words (1982)
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1996)
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004 (2004)
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
POETRY
Double Persephone (1961)
The Circle Game (1966)
The Animals in That Country (1968)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
Procedures for Underground (1970)
Power Politics (1971)
You Are Happy (1974)
Selected Poems (1976)
Two-Headed Poems (1978)
True Stories (1981)
Interlunar (1984)
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976–1986 (1986)
Morning in the Burned House (1995)
The Door (2007)
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939–
The edible woman / Margaret Atwood.
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Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Part