Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

Another in what is apparently an enormous fan-fiction of Greek and Roman myths. That I think I was sort of unaware of. And maybe that is because most of them are bad? This one is a throwaway- Atwood seemingly makes little effort to keep the Penelope narrator’s tone consistent… Almost as if each section had been written at different times, and she had not bothered to re-read the earlier sections in order to be consistent.

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Economist at Santa Clara University and Director of Friends of African Village Libraries.
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