Margaret Atwood - Bodily Harm

Pros: An amazingly superb, intense and passionately moving novel.

Cons: None that I can think of.

The Bottom Line: With Bodily Harm, Atwood has blended the perfect mix of both internal and external human journeys. Atwood's language is strikingly convincing, building to a suspenseful, terrifying and startlingly unnerving conclusion.

Review: Published in 1981, Bodily Harm is author Margaret Atwood's fifth novel, a stunningly bold and swift work that spans a little more than 300 pages and a few weeks of time that actually end up stretching across an entire lifetime. The novel ...