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...MARGARET ATWOOD...
Alice in Wonderland is alive and well and living in Margaret Atwood's new novel. She has changed a bit: she operates under the alias Joan Foster, resides in Toronto and writes gothic romances on the sly. But she still has more identities than she knows how to handle, takes pills that make her undergo disconcerting changes of size, and gets into trouble by gazing too long into a looking glass...
...escape works for a while and she gets to Italy, but her life stubbornly continues "to spread, to get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror." Significantly, the same might be said of Margaret Atwood's writing in Lady Oracle. The novel does not develop; it meanders, circling around and turning in on itself - letting its contours be defined by the chaos of the heroine's psyche. Italicized chunks of Joan Foster's latest gothic romance pop up just when one is expecting the next chapter in her life. The reader...
Crooked Seams. After writing Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood, like Joan, may have wondered whether she "should have taken it to a psychiatrist instead of a publisher." Fortunately, she did not. For if Atwood's last novel, Surfacing, was her basic black dress of a novel - trim, taut and meticulously crafted - then Lady Oracle is successful motley, a striking work made out of bright patches with all the crooked seams showing...
...willingly taken part in the robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco and declared herself a revolutionary ("I have chosen to stay and fight"). After studying S.L.A. tapes and writings, Singer decided that these particular messages were probably read by Patty from scripts prepared by Angela Atwood, an S.L.A. ideologue fond of bombast and complex phrasing, who was killed in the fiery Los Angeles Shootout...