Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (2025, Hardcover) SIGNED

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Illustrator
Yes
Signed
Yes
Narrative Type
Fiction
Features
Dust Jacket, SIGNED, 1st Edition, First printing
Original Language
English
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
ISBN
9781837260928
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Canongate Books
ISBN-10
1837260923
ISBN-13
9781837260928
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7074295541

Product Key Features

Book Title
Penelopiad
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary
Publication Year
2025
Genre
Fiction
Author
Margaret Atwood
Book Series
Canons Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.6 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Explores the very nature of mythic story-telling." -- Mary Beard , distinguished classicist and international bestselling author "Determinedly irreverent." -- New York Times "Atwood's brilliance emerges in the skillful way she's woven her own research on the anthropological underpinnings of Home's epic into the patterns of her own stylized version of the poem. . . . A fascinating and really attractive version of this old, old story, a creation tale about the founding of our civilization meant to be heard over and over and over." -- NPR "Visually stunning and unforgettable."-- New York Times Book Review "As potent as a curse."-- The Sunday Times "A witty desecration."-- The Observer "Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine."-- The Spectator "Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives ." -- The Independent, "As potent as a curse" - Sunday Times "Explores the very nature of mythic story-telling" - MARY BEARD "A witty desecration" - Observer "Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine" - Spectator "Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives " - Independent, "Determinedly irreverent" - New York Times "Atwood's brilliance emerges in the skillful way she's woven her own research on the anthropological underpinnings of Home's epic into the patterns of her own stylized version of the poem. If finally this version of Penelope's life doesn't fully shift our own understanding of Odysseus' return, it does make for a fascinating and really attractive version of this old, old story, a creation tale about the founding of our civilization meant to be heard over and over and over. Or as Atwood's Penelope would have it, woven and undone, woven and undone, and woven again." - Alan Cheuse, NPR "Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" shifts the focus away from Odysseus, to put his long-suffering wife, Penelope, and others of less consequence into the foreground. . The plight of the maids...becomes its own visually stunning and unforgettable story in Atwood's hands." - New York Times Book Review "As potent as a curse" - Sunday Times "Explores the very nature of mythic story-telling" - Mary Beard "A witty desecration" - Observer "Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine" - Spectator "Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives " - Independent, "As potent as a curse" - Sunday Times "Explores the very nature of mythic story-telling" - MARY BEARD "A witty desecration" - Observer "Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine" - Spectator "Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives " - Independent "Determinedly irreverent" - New York Times, "Explores the very nature of mythic story-telling." -- Mary Beard, distinguished classicist and international bestselling author "Determinedly irreverent." -- New York Times "Atwood's brilliance emerges in the skillful way she's woven her own research on the anthropological underpinnings of Home's epic into the patterns of her own stylized version of the poem. . . . A fascinating and really attractive version of this old, old story, a creation tale about the founding of our civilization meant to be heard over and over and over." -- NPR "Visually stunning and unforgettable."-- New York Times Book Review "As potent as a curse."-- The Sunday Times "A witty desecration."-- The Observer "Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine."-- The Spectator "Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives ." -- The Independent, "Atwood's brilliance emerges in the skillful way she's wovenher own research on the anthropological underpinnings of Home's epic into thepatterns of her own stylized version of the poem. If finally this version ofPenelope's life doesn't fully shift our own understanding of Odysseus' return,it does make for a fascinating and really attractive version of this old, oldstory, a creation tale about the founding of our civilization meant to be heardover and over and over. Or as Atwood's Penelope would have it, woven andundone, woven and undone, and woven again." - Alan Cheuse, NPR "Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" shifts the focus away from Odysseus, to put his long-suffering wife, Penelope, and others of less consequence into the foreground. . The plight of the maids...becomes its own visually stunning and unforgettable story in Atwood's hands." New York Times Book Review "As potent as a curse" - Sunday Times "Explores the very nature of mythic story-telling" - MARY BEARD "A witty desecration" - Observer "Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine" - Spectator "Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives " - Independent "Determinedly irreverent" - New York Times
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Afterword by
Pullman, Philip
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR AND AN AFTERWORD BY PHILIP PULLMAN Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making . . . So I'll spin my own thread. Penelope . . . immortalised in legend and Greek myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return from the Trojan war. Now, in Atwood's wise and witty retelling of the myth, Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder., 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHORAND AN AFTERWORD BY PHILIP PULLMANNow that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making . . . So I'll spin my own thread.Penelope . . . immortalised in legend and Greek myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return from the Trojan war. Now, in Atwood's wise and witty retelling of the myth, Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.

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