Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood [0]
MORAL DISORDER
“Superb … Atwood displays the same intellectual fearlessness and wit of her other books, but this time tempered with a compassion and richness of portraiture that will surprise even her most avid fans.”
—Boston Globe
“Powerful and distinctive.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“Vintage Atwood: slyly operatic, playfully tenebrous and a touch of sanguinary.…”
—Globe and Mail
“Ingenious and perceptive … deserves to become a quiet classic.”
—Spectator
“The prose has the tautness and diamond-sharp quality that has always characterized Atwood’s best work, but in this collection they are tempered by a meditative poignancy. The result is a fine, complex book rooted in autobiography but moving far beyond it.”
—National Post
“Atwood’s meticulous stories exert a powerful centrifugal force.…”
—Booklist (starred review)
“Atwood is in top form as she sketches female guises and disguises: daughter, sister, lover, wife.”
—Toronto Star
“Surprisingly personal short stories from an artist at her peak. No one else can be so tough and tender at the same time.”
—NOW magazine
“A fractured novel of particularly haunting and engaging beauty.”
—Books in Canada
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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Cloth edition published 2006
Emblem edition published 2009
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Moral disorder / Margaret Atwood.
eISBN: 978-1-55199-552-6
I. Title.
PS8501.T86M59 2009 C813′.54 C2008-904234-4
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used