Penelopiad (Main - Canons)

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  • Penelopiad (Main - Canons) by Margaret Atwood
A fresh take on what follows Homer's The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood.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 myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.

The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.

Penelopiad (Main - Canons)
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The 20th anniversary edition of Margaret Atwood's iconic tale with a new foreword by the author and an afterword by Philip Pullman.

A fresh take on what follows Homer's The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale.

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. Immortalized in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.

Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: Her own side of the story is a tale of lust, greed and murder.

Atwood breathes new life into the classic story by giving a voice to Penelope and daring to ask what led to the hanging of twelve maids.

Description

The 20th anniversary edition of Margaret Atwood's iconic tale with a new foreword by the author and an afterword by Philip Pullman.

A fresh take on what follows Homer's The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale.

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. Immortalized in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.

Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: Her own side of the story is a tale of lust, greed and murder.

Atwood breathes new life into the classic story by giving a voice to Penelope and daring to ask what led to the hanging of twelve maids.

ISBN
9781837260928
Publication Date
October 28, 2025
Binding
Hardcover
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
224
Series
Canons
Keywords
Fiction | Literary; Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Fiction | Women; Fiction | Feminist; Fiction | Adaptations & Pastiche

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