Lady Oracle

by Margaret Atwood

Joan Foster, a secret writer of Gothic romances, is suddenly thrust into the limelight when her outrageously feminist book, LADY ORACLE, becomes a bestseller. In a daring move to escape her past, Joan fakes her own death and begins a new life.

Editions of Lady Oracle

ISBN 9780385491082	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Doubleday	Date 1998	Price $2.85	Good
ISBN 9780553377811	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Bantam Dell Pub Group	Date 1996	Price $2.49	Very Good
ISBN 9780449213766	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Ballantine Books	Date 1990	Price $1.00	G+
ISBN 9780671223397	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Simon & Schuster	Date 1976	Price $1.55	Very Good
ISBN 9780771008153	Binding/Format Book	Publisher McClelland and Stewart	Date 1976	Price $1.00	Used, Good

Publisher Notes

Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time.

Media Reviews

"Atwood is a talented Canadian poet, critic and novelist. In her new novel...she shows herself to us as a skilled maker of funny-sat, inventive, and touching fiction....The tone in which [the author treats] love, especially the physical manifestations of it--sex and sexual passion--has not been captured so well and so humorously since Mary McCarthy's early novels and short stories and the recent work of Alison Lurie."

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