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Atwood is one of those writers that I forget how much I love until I pick up another and get transported all over again. This one's a knockout - a slow starter, but watching the various strands come together in their inexorable way leaves you a little breathless at how completely and perfectly designed the whole novel is. I don't often wonder too much about the authorial process (being more of an observer than a fellow wordsmith), but I'd love to know how much of the neatly mortise-and-tennoned
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On the whole, I liked her writing and the story in general. Book was a bit too long and drawn out for the subject matter, could have been told in a couple hundred less pages. Altho some of the characters were interesting, none was likable.
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