The Penelopiad
20th Anniversary Edition
Margaret Atwood
“Behave like water, I told myself. Don’t try to oppose them. When they try to grasp you, slip through their fingers. Flow around them”
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Celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Margaret Atwood’s iconic tale with this stunning hardback special edition that includes a new foreword by the author and an afterword by Philip Pullman - a volume to be gifted and coveted
20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
AND AN AFTERWORD BY PHILIP PULLMAN
Now that all the others have run out of air, it’s my turn to do a little story-making … So I’ll spin my own thread.
Penelope … immortalised in legend and Greek myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband’s return from the Trojan war.
Now, in Atwood’s wise and witty retelling of the myth, Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story – a tale of lust, greed and murder.
“As potent as a curse”
sunday Times
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“Explores the very nature of mythic story-telling”
Mary Beard
guardian
“Determinedly irreverent”
new York Times
“A witty desecration”
observer
“Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine”
spectator
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid’s Tale, her novels include Cat’s Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008. In 2017, The Handmaid’s Tale was adapted for an Emmy-nominated TV series and Alias Grace was adapted into a Netflix Original.
