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Description
Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Joan Foster, aka Louisa K. Delacourt: protagonist and narrator
- Arthur Foster: her husband
- Aunt Lou: Joan's aunt
First Sentence
I planned my death carefully; unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
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Authors & Contributors
- Margaret Atwood (Author)
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