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Bodily Harm
  
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Bodily Harm (Hardcover)

de Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Author)
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This recording delves deep into the Atwood archives, going back to one of the Canadian author's earliest novels, published in 1981. It follows Rennie, a journalist who spends three weeks on a Caribbean island, where she's retreating from a breakup and a brush with cancer. Rather than paradise, however, Rennie finds herself in the middle of an attempted coup. Bonnie Hurren's pacing is good, and she's a solid fit for Rennie's character, but the voice she ascribes to the other main female character is whiny and unsympathetic, which does a disservice to the novel. She also, unwisely, tries to handle Caribbean accents. D.B. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient de la Audio CD édition.


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Rennie Wilford is a freelance journalist who takes an assignment in the Caribbean in the hopes of recuperating from her recently shattered life. On the tiny island of St. Antoine, she tumbles into a corrupt world where no one is what they seem, where her rules for survival no longer apply. This is a thoroughly gripping novel of intrigue and betrayal, which explores human defensiveness, the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for a compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love. The enigma unfolds as it would for any innocent bystander swept up by events, bringing along the scruples, and the fears, of the past. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Hated It, Oct. 19 2002
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This review is from: Bodily Harm (Unbound)
I chose to read this book for a book report project in English because I had heard such great things about it, and the author Margaret Atwood. The beginning of the book was okay, and I reallie liked the main character Rennie. But as I continued to read I found that the story was dragging, and wasn't seeming to get any better along the way. I kept expecting something interesting to happen, or for the story to take a twist for the better but it never did. I didn't even want to finish the book, but I had to for my English class. This was the first book my Margaret Atwood I had ever read, and it almost turned me off her all together. (and believe me, I love to read, and had never been this turned off by a book before) Luckily I decided to try reading the Handmaid's Tale, and really enjoyed it, but I would never recommend this book to anyone.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 excellent, Mars 9 2002
Par Jeanne Anderson (Swartz Creek, MI United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I've read most of Margaret Atwood's books. This, by far, is one of my favorites. This author has a way of pulling you into the stories and feeling the feelings of the characters. There is also a lot meaning behind her words.

This was truly a fast read. I really liked the character, Rennie, although at one point in the book I was ready to clobber Paul for her.

If you like Margaret Atwood, don't miss reading this one!

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Happiness and cheer abound, Déc 30 2001
Sure it does. It is very much not a good idea for a reader to attempt to psychoanalyze an author through their own works, because not only will you probably come to the wrong conclusions, but the ones you do come up with will probably creep you out just a little bit. To whit: Margaret Atwood probably is a delightfully cheery woman who quite enjoys life and all she encounters . . . however that sure doesn't come across in her novels. In her best novels the misery her characters suffer often eventually dovetails into a gloriously insightful epiphany of sorts. And in other cases you often feel like just guilty reading the book, after a while you get the impression by continuing to read you're furthering the character's Job-like troubles. Life Before Man was a bit of a downer but at least it was spread over four people . . . here poor Rennie has to take it all on the chin herself. Young woman journalist Rennie is sent to a Caribbean island to write a vacation type story . . . what happens is quite simply the vacation from hell. There's really no other way to put it. Nobody is what they seem, Rennie is totally out of place and things start getting very serious before anyone knows what's going on. However if that's all there was to the book then it would simply be a matter of plodding on to see what Ms Atwood is going to do next to poor Rennie. To save the story, Atwood details Rennie's crumbling relationship with her boyfriend, as well as her relationships with both her family and others . . . these quasi-flashbacks (some are given as monologues, though I'm not sure who she's talking to) are interspersed throughout the novel and are where the story truly shines. When she wants to Atwood can get right to the heart of a person and choose the exact right words to get the emotions right. The ending alone is one of the best examples of a stark prose style I've ever seen. So ignore the quasi-political intrigue plot and instead focus on a masterful character study by one of the few authors who know how to get such things right. The feelings she reveals may be painful but you can't argue that she's all that far off.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Rennie as the 'every woman'
Although I have not read many Atwood novels, when I pick up one of her books I expect to be provoked intellectually and emotionally. Read more
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Mean
Ms. Atwood writes a mean sentence - stark, wild, and excellent. The story's not strong, but I continue to take pleasure in her prose, in her cutting expositions, and in the... Read more
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From reading the other reviews, it doesn't seem that folks are seeing this for what it is: a metaphor for Cancer. Read more
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3.0étoiles sur 5 A typical Attwood
A good book. At times unendingly long and hoerndousely pretentiouse. The book backtracks into boring epesodes. Read more
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Strange but Compelling
Though I wouldn't consider this my favorite Atwood novel, it is a good one, nonetheless. Atwood has a way of involving you with her characters, even if you don't necessarily... Read more
Publié le Aoû 29 2000 par Amy Krug

3.0étoiles sur 5 This book is difficult to read.
Alright, maybe you have to be extremely sophisticated to understand this book. Or maybe I just wasn't up to the task. I adore Atwood's work, largely speaking. Read more
Publié le Juil 4 2000 par Auliya

5.0étoiles sur 5 Faint at heart; beware
Atwood quite enjoys probing the intracasies of the female psyche. In this novel she truly captures the essence of a woman at her most vunerable. Read more
Publié le Jui 23 2000 par L. Pasquale

1.0étoiles sur 5 Students out there...this is not the book for you!
Hi was assigned a book report, and I chose this book, because of the great reviews. I found it to be very boring, and repetitive. It did not keep me interested at all! Read more
Publié le Avril 4 2000

5.0étoiles sur 5 A Deep look into someone else's life
At first I did not like this book and almost put it down after the first few chapters, too much jumping around from past to present. Read more
Publié le Janv. 11 2000

3.0étoiles sur 5 A watery ending of an otherwise lush novel
After getting over the typicly Canadian opening of Bodily Harm (it took four days to get past page 4), I breezed through the pages clinging on to what Attwood has always been... Read more
Publié le Nov. 6 1999 par David Goodman

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