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The Robber Bride
- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- Narrator
- Amanda Huxtable
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 29 May 2025
- Run Time
- 21 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
'Atwood has never written better than in this novel of glittering breadth and dark, eerie depths' SUNDAY TIMES
'As smart as anything Atwood has written, and she is always smart' NEW YORK TIMES
Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, a man's dream and a woman's nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure, Tony, Roz and Charis, who first met and suffered her as university students in the sixties, are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share an indulgent, sisterly lunch, the unthinkable happens; Zenia is back.
'Atwood's plotting is masterful, and her humor is razor-edged, sexy, and raucous' WASHINGTON POST
'Vividly written, acutely observed and very possibly the most intelligently tongue-in-cheek novel of the year' SALMON RUSHDIE
'An absorbing, high-speed read, the prose burnished with the author's characteristic verve, wit and insight' INDEPENDENT
Critics Review
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Margaret Atwood's new novel is a fairy tale of malicious simplicity . . . Vividly written, acutely observed and very likely the most intelligently tongue in cheek novel of the year
Independent on Sunday
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It stirs depths that CAT'S EYE did not reach, and grants deeper, stronger powers to women's friendship in distress
Marina Warner
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The Robber Bride is an absorbing, high-speed read, the prose burnished with the author's characteristic verve, wit and insight
Independent
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Excitements, wit and insight sizzle across the pages. Atwood's survey of impulses that bedevil life seethes with imagination, inventiveness and intelligence. Even she has never written better than in this novel of glittering breadth and dark, eerie depths
Sunday Times
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Funny, thoughtful, moving . . . Atwood's plotting is masterful, and her humor is razor-edged, sexy, and raucous
Washington Post
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The Robber Bride is as smart as anything Ms. Atwood has written, and she is always smart . . . Margaret Atwood's funniest and most companionable book in years . . . she retains her gift for observing, in poetry, the minutiae specific to the physical and emotional lives of her characters
New York Times
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The virtuosity with which Margaret Atwood's prose moves between rage and wit, poignancy and suspense, fantasy and realism makes The Robber Bride a stimulating read
Sunday Telegraph
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Marvellously enjoyable as well as moving and highly intelligent . . . My favourite example of [Atwood's] boldness and imagination
Guardian
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Margaret Atwood continues her long-running roll, offering us the good fortune of yet another disturbing and brilliantly conceived work of fiction
Chicago Tribune
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A remarkable achievement, constantly entertaining and intriguing
Ottowa Citizen
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Nobody maps female psychic territory the way Margaret Atwood does . . . Atwood is in her glory. What a treasure she is
Newsweek
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Deserves every superlative we can muster from hilarious to wise . . . A genuine tour de force, witty and original, suspenseful and sagacious
Booklist
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A hugely enjoyable novel
Globe and Mail
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Imaginative and suspenseful . . . a virtuoso performance
Publishers Weekly
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Brilliant and entertaining
Boston Sunday Globe
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Grabs the funny bone, the brain, and sometimes the throat
Kingston Whig-Standard
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Startling, provocative and rewarding
Canadian Forum
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Compelling and astonishingly rich
Books in Canada
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Details
- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- Narrator
- Amanda Huxtable
- Duration
- 21 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 May 2025
- ISBN
- 9781405565738
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
BY THE BESTSELLING, PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE'Atwood has never written better than in this novel of glittering breadth and dark, eerie depths' SUNDAY TIMES'As smart as anything Atwood has written, and she is always smart' NEW YORK TIMESZenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, a man's dream and a woman's nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure, Tony, Roz and Charis, who first met and suffered her as university students in the sixties, are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share an indulgent, sisterly lunch, the unthinkable happens; Zenia is back.'Atwood's plotting is masterful, and her humor is razor-edged, sexy, and raucous' WASHINGTON POST'Vividly written, acutely observed and very possibly the most intelligently tongue-in-cheek novel of the year' SALMON RUSHDIE'An absorbing, high-speed read, the prose burnished with the author's characteristic verve, wit and insight' INDEPENDENT
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