The Robber Bride (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Atwood
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Plot: Social
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Toronto, Canada
- Principal Characters: Tony, Charis, Roz, Zenia
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Marriage, Friendship, War, Women, Canada or Canadians, Identity, Widows or widowers, Loneliness, Middle age, Career women, Yoga
- Locales: Toronto, Canada
The Novel
The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood’s eighth novel, opens at the trendy Toronto restaurant Toxique, where middle-aged friends Tony, Charis, and Rox have their monthly lunch. Although they come from different backgrounds and their personalities are much at odds, they share a common denominator: All have lost a lover or spouse to the nefarious, ravishing she-devil Zenia. Friends since their 1960’s days at Toronto University, over the last thirty years they have helped each other in turn survive Zenia’s poisonous onslaughts. Although Zenia is dead—they...
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