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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781786892485

RRP: £8.99

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
April 5, 2018

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The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood

Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband’s return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story – a tale of lust, greed and murder.

Reviews of The Penelopiad

As potent as a curse * * The Sunday Times * * Fabulous . . . Determinedly irreverent * * The New York Times * * A witty desecration . . . Atwood plays with vigour and ingenuity * * Observer * * Atwood takes Penelope's part with tremendous verve . . . she explores the very nature of mythic story-telling — MARY BEARD * * Guardian * * Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mourn, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine * * Spectator * * Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives * * Independent * *

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid’s Tale, her novels include Cat’s Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008. In 2017, The Handmaid’s Tale was adapted for an Emmy-nominated TV series and Alias Grace was adapted into a Netflix Original.