{"product_id":"lady-oracle-9780385491082","title":"Lady Oracle","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ebestselling author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Testaments--\u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"brilliant and funny\" story (Joan Didion, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You What I Mean\u003c\/i\u003e) of a woman whose attempts to escape herself become instead an occasion for confronting the self-deception that has driven her since childhood\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoan Foster is a woman with numerous identities and a talent for shedding them at will. She has written trashy gothic romances, had affairs with a Polish count and an absurd avant-garde artist, and played at being a politically engaged partner to her activist husband. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a volume of her poetry becomes an unexpected literary sensation, her new fame attracts a blackmailer threatening to reveal her secrets. Joan's response is to fake her own death and flee to a hill town in Italy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStudded with hair-raising comic escapades and piercing psychological insights, \u003ci\u003eLady Oracle\u003c\/i\u003e is both hilarious and profound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491706802450,"sku":"9780385491082","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_83f0962f-2f31-452d-9b45-3f4798356474.jpg?v=1730551134","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lady-oracle-9780385491082","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}