Originally published in 1993, The Robber Bride is one of Margaret Atwood's most intricate and subversive novels, reporting from the furthest reaches of the same-sex wars.
Margaret Atwood's celebrated novel is about three very different women whose lives share a common wound: Zenia, whom they first met as university students in the sixties. Zenia is smart and beautiful, by turns manipulative, vulnerable--and irresistible. She has entered into their separate lives to ensnare their sympathy, betray their trust, steal their men, and exploit their weaknesses. Now, Zenia, thought dead, has suddenly come back to life.
In this richly layered narrative, Atwood skillfully evokes the decades of the past as she retraces three women's lives, until we are back in the present--where it's yet to be discovered whether Zenia's "pure, free-wheeling malevolence" can still wreak havoc.
