Bodily Harm

Margaret Atwood

Andrew commented that this was not MA's best book by a very long way. The story of a woman who, in recuperating from a breast cancer operation, takes an extended break on a Caribbean Island and winds up getting involved in a political insurrection. Andrew observed that the book fell down mainly because this woman, Rennie, is suppose to be a talented and street wise journalist and yet she is taken in by all of the highly suspicious characters that she meets. Andrew also made a more generalised observation about MAs treatment of her characters. He noted "Atwood often writes... badly about peoples attitudes to relationships. Her women are always either single and bitter or, if not in the first flush of romance, then completely bored with their relationship"
Andrew 15/8/99

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