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Bodily Harm

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A powerful and brilliantly crafted novel from the author of Cat's Eye, Surfacing, Life Before Man, The Edible Woman, and Lady Oracle.  Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges.  Rennie Wilford flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine, she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply.  By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's new novel is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love .

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Bodily Harm, Margaret Atwood

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1996
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Language
English
Publisher
Bantam
Released
1996
Format
Paperback
Pages
291
ISBN10
0553377892
ISBN13
9780553377897
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First published
1981
Original title
Bodily Harm
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A powerful and brilliantly crafted novel from the author of Cat's Eye, Surfacing, Life Before Man, The Edible Woman, and Lady Oracle.  Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges.  Rennie Wilford flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine, she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply.  By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's new novel is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love .