The Robber Bride (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Atwood
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1940’s through the 1990’s
- Setting: Canada
- Principal Characters: Tony, Charis (formerly Karen), Rosalind “Roz” Grunwald, Zenia, West
- 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
Margaret Atwood focuses in her work on women and their experiences, often exploring the dark side of women’s lives in disturbing portraits that call into question the treatment of women by society as a whole. In Surfacing (1972), a young woman undergoes a cathartic mental breakdown in the Canadian wilderness; Bodily Harm (1981) charts the experiences of a woman who flees from the confusion of her personal life to unexpected danger in the Caribbean; The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) is set in a future where women have no rights and can serve only as wives or...
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