Atwood goes apocalyptic with mixed results
Literary fiction; The Heart Goes Last, By Margaret Atwood, Bloomsbury, €25.50
Margaret Atwood is a master of mistrust. From her dystopian regimes of The Handmaid’s Tale or the recent MaddAddam trilogy, to her impenetrable convict narrator of Alias Grace, to the culture of cruelty among young girls in the wonderful Cat’s Eye, things are rarely as they appear in the Canadian author’s fiction.
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