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SURFACING by MARGARET ATWOOD...
...some other people are connoisseurs of wine, Margaret Atwood is a connoisseur of pain. She is acquainted with vintages. She can identify all the best anguishes blindfolded...
...married a fighter pilot, Benjamin Atwood, in 1945. She declines to talk about the marriage except to say that they had three children. Atwood died in a plane crash in 1967, many years after they were divorced. In 1952, she married Cameron Randolph Beard, a flag manufacturer, and they had two children. He was "very wealthy, very wonderful, and also, he was an alcoholic. So there's me and five children, a drunk husband and two dogs." One son was injured in an automobile accident ("You can still see the tire prints across his chest"), and she tried...
...Came to Stay and Mary McCarthy's A Charmed Life introduced to a wide audience the intelligent, exacting female who assumes that all the best minds are androgynous and finds nothing but trouble as a result. Now the growing list includes Doris Lessing, Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Marge Piercy, Cynthia Buchanan and Joyce Carol Gates...
Harvard will also need to move several players up the ladder to replace Atwood and Gonzalez at three and four. Quasha and Gordon had such an easy time in the lower ranks that they should be able to meet greater competition. Wiegand, who never reached his full potential last year, may pass them both...