ATWOOD MARGARET

(P/B) ALIAS GRACE
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale Now a major NETFLIX series Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) LIFE BEFORE MAN
Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Elizabeth has just lost her latest lover to suicide while Nate, her husband, is working up to run off with Lesje. And Lesje? She would rather be studying dinosaurs than distracted by men. As Elizabeth, Nate and Lesje find themselves imprisoned by walls of their own construction the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover hangs over them. Under his shadow, and in the spell of love, their l...
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(P/B) THE ROBBER BRIDE
Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman''s nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure Tony, Roz andd Charis are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share an indulgent, sisterly lunch, the unthinkable happens; 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation', Zenia is back... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE HANDMAID'S TALE
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony, wit and astute perception. (From the publisher) NOW A SMASH-HIT TV SERIES...
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(H/B) THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before. "Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us." Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under...
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(H/B) OLD BABES IN THE WOOD
Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love - and what comes after. The stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World W...
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Η ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΛΗΜΜΥΡΑΣ
Σε ένα όχι και τόσο μακρινό μέλλον, η οικολογική καταστροφή και η εξαθλίωση της ανθρώπινης ύπαρξης αποτελούν πλέον γεγονός. Ο Αδάμ-Ένα, ο καλοσυνάτος ηγέτης των "Κηπουρών του Θεού" -μιας παραθρησκευτικής σέκτας που έχει αφιερωθεί στη συμφιλίωση της επιστήμης και της θρησκείας, καθώς και στη διατήρηση των φυτικών και ζωικών ειδών- είχε προβλέψει από καιρό μια φυσική καταστροφή, που θα άλλαζε τη μορφή της Γης. Και δυστυχώς επαληθεύεται. Μόνο δύο γυναίκες φαίνεται να έχουν επιζήσει: η Ρεν, μια νεαρή χορεύτρια που είχε βρει καταφύγιο σε στριπτ...
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ΟΡΥΞ ΚΑΙ ΚΡΕΙΚ
Τα γουρούνια μπορεί να μην πετούν, αλλά σίγουρα έχουν υποστεί κάποια περίεργη μετάλλαξη. Το ίδιο ισχύει και για τους λύκους και τα ρακούν. Ένας άνδρας που κάποτε ονομαζόταν Τζίμι τώρα αυτοαποκαλείται Χιονάνθρωπος και ζει σ' ένα δέντρο, τυλιγμένος με παλιά σεντόνια. Η φωνή της Όρυξ, της γυναίκας που αγάπησε, τον στοιχειώνει τον περιπαίζει. Και τα Παιδιά του Κρέικ με τα πράσινα μάτια είναι, για κάποιο λόγο, δική του ευθύνη. Καλωσήρθατε στον εξωφρενικό κόσμο της Μάργκαρετ Άτγουντ. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(P/B) THE TENT
One of the world’s most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has written a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her previous books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative tales tackle a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision. Punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author, they are vintage Atwood. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) LADY ORACLE
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of romances to distinguished poet - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organise her own death... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) EATING FIRE
The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates a major literary talent. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world. In this volume, two previous selections, Poems 1965-1975 and Poems 1976-1986 are presented together with Morning in the Burned House. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) BURNING QUESTIONS
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. T...
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(ΣΕΤ) ΑΤΓΟΥΝΤ: ΟΙ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΕΣ - Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΡΑΠΑΙΝΙΔΑΣ
ΟΙ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΕΣ Ανακάλυψε το αριστουργηματικό sequel του βιβλίου Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΡΑΠΑΙΝΙΔΑΣ (The Handmaid's Tale) της Margaret Atwood, ΟΙ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΕΣ (The Testaments). Δεκαπέντε χρόνια μετά τα όσα περιγράφονται στην Ιστορία της Θεραπαινίδας, το θεοκρατικό καθεστώς της Δημοκρατίας της Γαλαάδ παραμένει ισχυρό, αλλά τα πρώτα σημάδια της παρακμής αρχίζουν να γίνονται φανερά. Σε αυτή την κρίσιμη στιγμή, οι ζωές τριών ολότελα διαφορετικών γυναικών συναντιούνται, και τα αποτελέσματα μπορεί να είναι εκρηκτικά. Οι δύο ανήκουν στην πρώτη γενιά που ενηλικιώ...
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(H/B) DEARLY
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist, poet - and cultural phenomenon. Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognizable and celebrated themes, but distilled -- from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearl...
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(P/B) THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD
The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a manmade plague - has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) MADDADDAM
Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species designed to replace humanity. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy-the-Snowman, is in a coma, so they've chosen a new hero - Zeb, the street-smart man Toby loves. As clever Pigoons attack their fragile garden and malevolent Painballers scheme, the small band of survivors will need more than stories. (From ...
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(H/B) THE HANDMAID'S TALE
A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility...
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(P/B) HAG-SEED
Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost his reputation. It will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. Also brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and...
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(H/B) THE TESTAMENTS
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in...
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ΤΟ ΠΑΙΔΙ ΤΗΣ ΤΡΙΚΥΜΙΑΣ
Ο Φίλιξ είναι καλλιτεχνικός διευθυντής του θεατρικού φεστιβάλ Μακέσιγουεγκ και τα καταφέρνει περίφημα. Οι παραγωγές του έχουν σαστίσει τα πλήθη. Τώρα ετοιμάζει μια παράσταση της σαιξπηρικής "Τρικυμίας", που δεν έχει προηγούμενο: δεν πρόκειται απλώς να τονώσει τη φήμη του, θα γιατρέψει και τα συναισθηματικά του τραύματα. Ή αυτό, τουλάχιστον, ήταν το σχέδιο -αντ' αυτού όμως, έπειτα από μια απρόβλεπτη προδοσία ο Φίλιξ καταλήγει εξόριστος σε μια απομονωμένη τρώγλη. Η ανάμνηση της χαμένης κόρης του, της Μιράντα, και η σκέψη της εκδίκησης θα τον...
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