num_pages: 466
description: From the extraordinary imagination of Margaret Atwood, author of the bestselling The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye, comes her most intricate and subversive novel yet.Roz, Charis, and Tony--war babies all--share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Zenia is beautiful and smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, the turbulent center of her own never-ending saga. Zenia entered their lives when they were in college, in the sixties; and over the three decades since, she damaged each of them badly ensnaring their sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men as loot. Then Zenia died, or at any rate the three women--with much relief--attended her funeral. But as The Robber Bride begins, she's suddenly alive again, sauntering into the restaurant where they are innocently eating lunch.In this consistently entertaining and profound new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the war between the sexes, provocatively suggesting that if women are to be equal they must realize that they share with men both the capacity for villainy and the responsibility for moral choice. The group of women and men at the center of this funny and wholly involving story all fall prey to a chillingly recognizable menace, which is given power by their own fantasies and illusions. The Robber Bride is a novel to delight in--for its consummately crafted prose, for its rich and devious humor, and, ultimately, for its compassion.Jacket illustration by Malcolm TarlofskyJacket design by Whitney G. Cookman
language: English
title: The Robber Bride
titlecomplete: The Robber Bride
characters: Tony, Charias, Zenia, Roz
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Womens, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Feminism, Canada, Novels, Classics
ratings_count: 46244
places: Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Nan A. Talese