by Margaret Atwood · Claassen · Tapa dura · ISBN 9783546000024
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«Lady Orakel» is the novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Claassen in hardback (375 pages, in German).
Joan Foster has built her life on shifting identities: author of Gothic novels, wife of an activist, and famous poet. When a blackmailer threatens to reveal her secrets, she decides to fake her own death and flee to a village in Italy. A bittersweet comedy about the search for identity.
Work originally published in English as «Lady Oracle» in 1976. This German edition, translated by Werner Waldhoff, belongs to the Claassen extra collection.
For readers of literary and psychological fiction and for those who want to read Margaret Atwood in German.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
