Lady Oracle (Unabridged)
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - 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 organize her own death.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Margaret Atwood’s darkly comic, lighthearted gem has aged beautifully since its 1976 publication. Lady Oracle is Atwood at her most buoyant, affectionately satirizing various aspects of the '70s literary scene. Joan Foster is a quiet housewife who secretly writes bodice-rippers under a pen name—and that’s just one of the many secrets she’s keeping from her husband. When Joan’s sudden fame leads to blackmail, she does what anyone would do: She fakes her own death and flees across the Atlantic. Actress Lorelei King nails the voice of the wily and oddly lovable Joan, along with her quirky entourage of devotees and haters.
