Mirna Z. (otherworldgirl) reviewed on
Helpful Score: 3
Any book by Margaret Atwood is worth the trouble, and Lady Oracle is no exception. Somewhat uneven and not as highly polished as, for example, The Handmaid's Tale, this tale of a woman who repeatedly reinvents herself -- from morbidly obese teenager, to young drifter, to closeted writer, to wife, to mistress, to celebrity, to fugitive -- leaving a trail of lies and confusion in her wake, is funny, poignant, lyrical and at times as frustrating as its imaginative but overly passive heroine who refuses to take responsibility for her actions right down to the bittersweet and ironic end.
