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The Penelopiad
Hardcover
Series: Canons
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9781837260928
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
The 20th anniversary edition of Margaret Atwood's iconic tale with a new foreword by the author and an afterword by Philip Pullman.
A feminist retelling of 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.
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