Atwood, Margaret

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A trio of tolerable tales

In Rude Ramsay and the roaring radishes, Ramsay goes on an adventure with his friend Ralph the red-nosed rat. In Bashful Bob and doleful Dorinda, Bob, a boy raised by dogs, meets Dorinda, a girl raised by dreadful relatives, and the two become fast friends. In Wandering Wenda, Wenda and her woodchuck have to outsmart Wizard Willup in order to get Wenda's parents back.

The handmaid's tale

2017
Set in a future society that has reverted to, and gone beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans, this story is told through the eyes of Offred, a so-called handmaid. While her job as a surrogate mother to a sterile marriage conveys an elevated status, she longs to escape.

Surfacing

A woman artist, her lover, and another young couple travel to a remote island in northern Quebec in search of the artist's missing father.

Margaret Atwood

conversations
Presents a collection of twenty-one interviews conducted with author Margaret Atwood between 1972 and 1989 in which she discusses her career as a writer, feminism, Canadian cultural nationalism, and other topics.

The Best American short stories, 1989

selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines
1989

Hag-seed

the Tempest retold
2016
"Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?"--OCLC.

Angel Catbird

2016
"On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment when his DNA is merged with that of a cat and an owl."--Provided by publisher.

Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey?with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake?through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride.

MaddAddam

a novel
2013
Toby and Ren return to the MaddAddamite cob house after rescuing Amanda and assuming the duties of the Craker's religious overseers while Zeb searches for the founder of the pacifist green religion he left years earlier.

The edible woman

1998
Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat.

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