What: Tour de force novel from Margaret Atwood, multiple-award-winning, 20th-century spanning, sisters, roman à clef, button factories, pulp science fiction, wealthy industrialist, adultery, newspaper articles, suicide, Canadian history, bridges, dingy backstreet rooms, socialist agitator, dead husband on a sailboat, World War II, self-delusion, potboiler, story within a story within a story
Representative quote: "Herbivores flee before them, scavengers follow, wolves lope alongside."
Also: The Robber Bride (Rec. #105) and The Penelopiad (Personal Wreck Week, List #3)
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