Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride the Blind Assassin Oryx and Crake (Hardcover)

In this critical collection well-known Atwood scholars offer original readings and critical re-evaluations of three Atwood masterpiecesGÇö The Robber Bride The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake. Providing new critical assessments of Atwood s novels in language that is both lively and accessible Margaret Atwood reveals not only Atwood s ongoing and evolving engagement with the issues that have long preoccupied herGÇöranging from the power politics of human relationships to a concern with human rights and the global environmentGÇöbut also her increasing formal complexity as a novelist. If Atwood is a novelist who is part trickster illusionist and con-artist as she has often described herself she is also as the essays in this critical collection show an author-ethicist with a finely honed sense of moral responsibility.