Atwood is at her best again! It's not my favorite of her books but Atwood is really good at creating characters who are very disconnected from life and I'm just the opposite, if I was that disconnected I would commit suicide. This story explores breast cancer and sex and sexual feelings. I understand some of her feelings as I had some of them after my first operation, a simple hernia operation, but as I age with more operations I don't have the same feelings.
The reviewers say that this book is about sex and power hunger.... maybe but it was too subtle for me, I thought it was about disconnection that I don't think started with the breast cancer. Events happened around Renny and some were quite traumatic and she still seemed disconnected, her life was all about disconnection even as a writer, she writes about other lives without being involved in them or her own. At the end when events are so traumatic that they demand she becomes involved, she disconnects even more to survive, which I think would have shocked myself into connection but seemed to have little effect on her.
Great story line, very creative... I really like Margaret Atwood.