The Penelopiad (Canongate Myths)

by Margaret Atwood

Paperback, 2006

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Publication

Canongate U.S. (2006), Edition: First Trade Paper Edition, Paperback, 224 pages

Description

Now that I'm dead I know everything - The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus retold on audio. Margaret Atwood gives Penelope a modern and witty voice to tell her side of the story, and set the record straight for good.

Media reviews

Entertainment Weekly

She channels Penelope by way of Absolutely Fabulous; one can imagine her chain-smoking and swilling wine between cracks about the weakness of men and the misery they visit upon women.

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New York Times

Atwood has done her research: she knows that penelopeia means "duck" in Greek; that ribald stories about a Penelope - whether "our Penelope" or someone else - were circulated; and that virginity could be renewed by the blood of male sacrifice.