The Penelopiad
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Published:23rd Oct '25
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback - Signed Edition£20.00(9781837260928-S)
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.
As potent as a curse * * Sunday Times * *
Explores the very nature of mythic story-telling -- MARY BEARD * * Guardian * *
Determinedly irreverent * * New York Times * *
A witty desecration * * Observer * *
Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine * * Spectator * *
Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives * * Independent * *
- Short-listed for Hearst Big Book 2018 (UK)
ISBN: 9781837260928
Dimensions: 220mm x 141mm x 20mm
Weight: 333g
224 pages
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