Moral Disorder

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• Meet my sister the monster

  Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury £15.99, pp257 More than 20 years ago, Margaret Atwood wrote a short story called 'Happy Endings' that presented a series of possible plots that could follow the beginning 'John and Mary meet'. Finally, the ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Eleven-piece suite

  Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood 260pp, Bloomsbury, £15.99 Most collections of short stories by a single author are grab-bags, but some approach or achieve real unity; this is a different unity from that of the novel, and deserves some attention. Th ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  Almost a novel. An exciting exploration of all sorts of relationships and sisterhoods (to be seen in The Blind Assassin and The Year of the Flood).

  It's also about filling up the unsaid with words, the magic of literature.

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  Oskar said on Jul 21, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Throughout all the short stories (which come together as almost a whole novel since they are about the same person) I felt disconnected to the main characters, uninspired and like I was just coasting along with someone I didn't particularly care to know. I did finish them all because it's a short b ... (continue)

  Throughout all the short stories (which come together as almost a whole novel since they are about the same person) I felt disconnected to the main characters, uninspired and like I was just coasting along with someone I didn't particularly care to know. I did finish them all because it's a short book but... it was pointless.

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  s u v i said on Feb 25, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback 384 Pages
• ISBN-10: 184408227X
• ISBN-13: 9781844082278
• Publisher: Virago
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook

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