Word: atwoods
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...Miss Atwood continues where she left off in The Edible Woman, chronicling the particular pains of being female...
...problem for Miss Atwood's antiheroine is that she has been divorced from far more than a husband...
...urbanized-worse, Americanized-friends seem to make no connections at all even within their own free-floating selves. Like a supercasual Dante, Miss Atwood pronounces sentence upon her generation of lost and damned: "Any one of us could have amnesia for years and the others wouldn't notice...
...devised her hell for pseu-dosophisticated young Canadians and a make-do formula for living in it: "If it hurts, invent a different pain." Like a good Canadian, Miss Atwood conceives of the ultimate pain as a kind of terminal frostbite: the frozen state of feeling nothing, even pain. Her narrator thinks she may have arrived at this last circle, only to discover she is not quite so dead as she presumed...
...modern man is suffering the pain of turning into his own machine, the author argues in effect, why not let him choose the less ignominious old organic pain of being an animal? Much of this sounds modish and empty. But Margaret Atwood, alternately satirical and lyrical, is a mistress of controlled hysteria. She skillfully presses her polarized universe upon her reader and indeed upon her race. She may be excessively hard on civilization. But, as only a really gifted writer can, she turns paranoia into art, forcing her rapidly industrializing fellow countrymen - her rap idly overindustrializing world - to contemplate...