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Jay MacPherson was a rare creature — one of a kind. Everyone who knew her would agree.
Eleanor Cook has spoken about her poetry. I can only add that those few who heard her read it have never forgotten the experience. She was not a person who was interested in poetry as a “career” – she wrote poems only when impelled – and that is clear from the poems themselves.
I first met Jay in 1957 because...
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The Handmaid's Tale
— published 1985 — 114 editions |
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Oryx and Crake(MaddAddamTrilogy, #1)
— published 2003 — 72 editions |
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The Blind Assassin
— published 2000 — 65 editions |
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author), Brigitte Walitzek — published 1996 — 61 editions |
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy, #2)
— published 2009 — 50 editions |
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Cat's Eye
— published 1988 — 68 editions |
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The Robber Bride
— published 1993 — 53 editions |
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The Edible Woman
— published 1969 — 51 editions |
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The Penelopiad (Canongate Myths)
— published 2005 — 17 editions |
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Surfacing
— published 1972 — 3 editions |
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“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
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