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"A landmark work of speculative fiction, comparable to A Clockwork Orange and Brave New World. Margaret Atwood has surpassed herself."
-- Kirkus
Margaret Atwood
"Atwood is... a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous."
-- John Updike, The New Yorker
"Margaret Atwood is one of the greatest writers alive... [Her] style is tight, authoritative and as glittering and hard as a diamond... she casts her contemporaries in the shade."
-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"There is a steely quality to Ms. Atwood's writing that's a bit scary but also exhilarating; no one gets away with anything."
-- The Wall Street Journal
"Atwood takes many trends which exist today and stretches them to their logical and chilling conclusions...."
-- Houston Chronicle
Other Margaret Atwood books
Praise for The Handmaid's Tale
"Atwood takes many trends which exist today and stretches them to their logical and chilling conclusions... Read it while it's still allowed."
-- Houston Chronicle
"A novel that brilliantly illuminates. . . .the darker interconnections between politics and sex..."
-- Washington Post Book World
Praise for Blind Assassin
"The first great novel of the new millennium."
-- Newsday
"Absorbing... expertly rendered... Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display."
-- The New York Times
"Brilliant... Opulent... Atwood is a poet.... as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous."
-- John Updike, The New Yorker
"Chilling... Lyrical... [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date."
-- The Boston Globe
"Hauntingly powerful.... A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters... Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade."
-- The Atlanta Journal--Constitution
"Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable."
-- The Washington Post Book World
"Bewitching... A killer novel.... Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton... A wonderfully complex narrative."
-- The Christian Science Monitor
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