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may not be startling--you can see Rennie's epiphany coming for miles and miles--but it is very smooth. And there are sometimes wry, sometimes brutal side-trips into the anomie of modern life, not to mention barefoot treks through the sifting sand of sexual relationships, that are worth the time."
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As in many of the heroines of Atwood's novels, Rennie is addicted to negative relationships. She feels "hooked like a junkie" to her relationship with Jake, and becomes unable to distinguish between
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island St. Antoine to carry out research for an article. The island, however, is on the brink of
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Rennie Wilford is a travel reporter. After surviving
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Bodily Harm (disambiguation)

Margaret Atwood
McClelland & Stewart
Hardcover
Paperback
ISBN
0-7704-2256-X
OCLC
257154527
Life Before Man
The Handmaid's Tale
novel
Margaret Atwood
McClelland and Stewart
protagonist
breast cancer
Caribbean
revolution
sadomasochism
The Boston Phoenix
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
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ISBN
978-0-521-83966-2
"Hot tropics, cold comfort"
Atwood discusses Bodily Harm with Fay Weldon
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