Lady Oracle (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Atwood
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s to the 1970’s
- Setting: Toronto, Canada; Terremoto, Italy; London, England
- Principal Characters: Joan Delacourt Foster, Fran Delacourt, Aunt Lou, Arthur Foster, The Royal Porcupine, Paul
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Love or romance, Gender roles, Marriage, Women, Fantasy, Canada or Canadians
- Locales: London, England, Italy, Toronto, Canada
The Novel
Lady Oracle is a five-part narrative in which Joan Foster, the first-person narrator, tells the story of her life. Spanning the time period from the early 1940’s through the mid-1970’s, Joan’s story describes her growing up in Toronto, becoming an author of gothic romances, marrying, and faking her suicide to escape the complicated turmoil of her life. The first narrative begins immediately following Joan’s phony suicide. Planning her “death” very carefully, she aims for a neatness and simplicity in it that would counter the spreading tendency of...
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