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Oct 3, 1981 · 8,624 ratings621 reviews. Rennie Wilford is a freelance journalist who takes an assignment in the Caribbean in the hopes of recuperating from her recently shattered life. On the tiny island of St. Antoine, she tumbles into a corrupt world where no one is what they seem, where her rules for survival no longer apply.
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Mar 20, 1982 · BODILY HARM. by Margaret Atwood ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 20, 1982. bookshelf. shop now. Rennie is a free-lance Toronto journalist in her thirties. She's recently had a partial mastectomy; she has lost her live-in lover; she has entertained a brief but one-way crush on her doctor. Moreover, her apartment has been broken into.
Bodily Harm. Mitchel, a mild-mannered suburban stockbroker spirals out of control after losing his job, finding his wife in flagrante with a sleazy neighbour, and discovering his dad is dying of cancer, all on the eve of his 44th birthday.
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Bodily Harm. by Margaret Atwood. 1. Rennie has a series of dreams in which her grandmother complains that her hands are missing. Rennie, a writer, interprets this as dream-evidence that her grandmother is dead. What does a loss of one's hands represent? What does it mean for a writer in particular? 2.
In ''Bodily Harm,'' she doesn't want to. On this occasion, cells riot and meat rots and history itself is diseased. Our heroine, Rennie Wilford, is a Toronto journalist. Once upon a time she...
Her novels include CAT'S. EYE, THE ROBBER BRIDE, ALIAS GRACE, THE BLIND ASSASSIN and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, THE TESTAMENTS, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.
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Apr 13, 1998 · Bodily Harm. by Margaret Atwood. Rennie, a young fashion reporter, travels to the island of St. Antoine with the intention of indulging herself after surviving a bout with breast cancer and a traumatic break-up.