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Margaret Atwood Novels. The Edible Woman (1969), is a darkly comic and satirical exploration of identity, gender roles, and consumer culture. Marian, the protagonist, becomes increasingly alienated from her life and develops a strange aversion to food as her wedding date approaches. In the end, she makes a bold decision that changes her life ...
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Oryx & Crake
- The Robber Bride
- The Blind Assassin
- The Testaments
- Alias Grace
- Hag-Seed
- Surfacing
- Cat’S Eye
- The Heart Goes Last
No list of Margaret Atwood’s best novels would be complete without this one. It is, without a doubt, her most famous book and the one that has brought her worldwide fame. The Handmaid’s Tale story plot focuses on a narrator known only by the name Offred, given to her by the theocratic totalitarian government, Gilead, that has taken over the United ...
Oryx & Crake is the first book in Atwood’s series of three novels in the Maddaddam Trilogy. This opening book, published in 2003, is speculative fiction and describes a dystopian world but one that has met with an overwhelming environmental disaster in the form of a plague. The novel focuses on Jimmy/Snowman, who is alone in this post-apocalyptic l...
Published in 1993, The Robber Brideis set in modern-day Toronto, Canada, and follows three female main characters. The novel uses flashbacks and various perspectives to tell the story of their romances, betrayals, and losses. Each woman tells the story of Zenia, another woman who stole their romantic partners. Each story is different, and no single...
The Blind Assassin is one of two books of fiction for which Atwood won The Man Booker Prize. The novel was published in 2000 and like many of her novels, is set in Canada. It focuses on Iris and her sister Laura. Iris looks back on her life from the perceptive of an older woman and recalls her childhood, youth, and middle age. There is a secondary ...
The Testaments is the second novel for which Atwood won The Man Booker Prize. It was published in 2019 and is the follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale. Rather than returning to Offered’s story, the novel focuses on several other characters and how they became who they are inThe Handmaid’s Tale. This includes Aunt Lydia, one of the most distasteful char...
Alias Grace is another one of Atwood’s most popular novels. It was published in 1996 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It focuses on the 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery in the Canadian West. The two household servants, Grace Marks and James McDermott were convicted of the crimes. Grace got life in prison, and James was h...
Hag-seed is one of Margaret Atwood’s more recent novels, published in 2016. It is a creative retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The story focuses on Felix, a theatre director, who loses his job and receives a job at a prison teaching English literacy. While there, he decides to stage a new version of The Tempest with the inmates. Felix struggl...
Surfacing is one of Atwood’s earlier novels, published in 1972. It tells the story of a young woman who returns to Canada to search for her missing father. This sends her into a series of memories in regard to her youth, her childhood home, and her relationship with her father. She’s accompanied by her partner, poem, and a married couple. As the bo...
Cat’s Eye was published in 1988 and tells the story of Elaine Risley. She, like protagonists in other novels, looks into her past and spends time reflecting on her youth and teenage years. An important part of the novel focuses on her experiences as an eight-year-old with two friends, Carol and Grace. She goes back and forth between being confident...
The Heart Goes Last was published in 2015 that focuses on a strange near-future and a couple, Charmaine and Stan. The two, while living in their car, decide to sign up for a social experiment that would give them their own home and jobs. The only drawback is that every second month they have to live in a prison cell. While in prison, an “alternativ...
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May 3, 2024 · Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. Her notable books include The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), and The Testaments (2019). Learn more about Atwood’s life and work.
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- What was Margaret Atwood’s childhood like?Margaret Atwood began writing at age five and resumed her efforts, more seriously, a decade later. As an adolescent, Atwood divided her time betwee...
- What awards did Margaret Atwood win?Margaret Atwood won two Governor General’s Literary Awards, for Poetry or Drama for The Circle Game (1966) and for fiction for The Handmaid’s Tale...
- What is Margaret Atwood best known for?Margaret Atwood is best known for The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), a dystopian novel set in New England in the near future, which posits a Christian fun...
Sep 8, 2019 · Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is ...
- The Circle Game (1964) Atwood released her first full-length poetry book titled The Circle Game in 1964. The collection addresses love, vulnerability, morality and technology — all themes that she would continue to explore in her later work.
- The Edible Woman (1969) Atwood's first novel, The Edible Woman, was released in Canada in 1969. The Edible Woman uses elements of the surreal as it follows a young woman named Marian whose engagement sets off an increasingly bizarre series of events, which include the loss of her ability to eat.
- Survival (1972) In 1972, Atwood published Survival, her first work of criticism. The book represents a detailed analysis of Canadian literature — its strengths and weaknesses — in an attempt to understand what made the country's writing unique.
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Released in 1985, The Handmaid's Tale was Atwood's breakthrough book on an international scale. The modern classic tells the story of a Handmaid known as Offred who is trapped in a society where her only purpose is to conceive and bear the child of a powerful man.
To add more books, click here . Margaret Atwood has 392 books on Goodreads with 8326527 ratings. Margaret Atwood’s most popular book is The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1).
Apr 2, 2014 · Margaret Atwood is an award-winning Canadian poet, novelist and essayist known for books like 'The Handmaid’s Tale,' 'Cat's Eye' and 'Oryx and Crake,' among an array of other works.
