Another great early Atwood novel. First published in 1976, her third novel. This is the first one where she employs what will become a favorite technique. She starts at the end of the story, this time with a great opening line: "I planned my death carefully; unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it." That line perfectly describes the novel. Of course, we learn within the first paragraph that she is not really dead, just faking her death, but the reader is already hooked.
After that beginning, Atwood goes back and fills in all the details, so that the reader learns how and why the narrator has gotten to this point. Later Atwood uses this same technique in several more novels, always to great success.
Highly recommended.
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