"First novel, 1969. Her main character, Marian McAlpin, has a very contemporary problem. She feels alienated: constrained by her market-research job, ambivalent about her engagement to Peter..."
"1972. In Surfacing, poetry and prose brilliantly come together in a heart-wrenching novel that focuses on a woman's desperate attempt to put the ghosts of her past to rest. With three friends..."
"1976. Joan Foster is a formerly obese woman whose delicate equilibrium is threatened by the fact that the several lives she has lived separately and secretly are coming together and will be exposed."
"1979. "Crisp, carefully ironic, contemporary. Life Before Man offers us three characters of great complexity and roundness -- Atwood has written a novel that is emotionally powerful and intelligent.""
"1981. What makes her book so considerable an achievement is the mature, informed accuracy of its view of life. What makes it so exhilarating is the profusion of tough wit and precise poetry."
"1985. An imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the"
"1988. Cat's Eye is one of Margaret Atwood's most intriguing novels, a ruminative, symbol-laced, and deceptively loose book that encompasses many of the concerns of her earlier works, but compounded."
"1993. Atwood takes feminism one step further, showing women as victims not only of society but of themselves. Her book is daring, richly detailed, and compulsively readable."
"1996 Giller Winner. Intrigued by contemporary reports of a sensational murder trial in 1843 Canada, Atwood has drawn a compelling portrait of what might have been. The real life Grace..."
"2000 Booker Winner. "It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward," writes Margaret Atwood, towards the end of her impressive and complex new novel, The Blind Assassin."
"2003. In the beginning, there was chaos..." Atwood's chilling new novel moves beyond the futuristic fantasy of The Handmaid’s Tale to an even more dystopian world."
"2005. Adjectives to describe the fiction of Margaret Atwood and most would submit "intense, cerebral, futuristic, feminist," or just plain "weird." The Peneopiad adds "funny" to the list."
"2009. Atwood is funny and clever. She knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect. . . . The Year of the Flood isn’t prophesy, but it is eerily possible."
"Not by Awood, but my first. Historical Fiction (1951, post-war.) A disillusioned soldier drifts into an erotic entanglemant with a runaway schoolgirl."
