Name: Bodily Harm
ISBN: 9780771008375

Margaret Atwood

The fifth novel by one of the world's most eminent literary women features a young journalist who flees to the Caribbean to reevaluate her life and learns a lesson in the lust for power and the need for compassion. Reissue.

Bodily Harm

Patrick Book

3.75 stars. The protagonist brings a very interesting perspective, one I'm not sure I've seen before. The story gets weird, in a very unexpected way, and frankly I'm not sure/not smart enough to see how it ties in to her journey in a subtextual way. But very interesting!

Mahasin S Ameen

This is a book that while beautifully written, I couldn't relate to at my current age. Bodily Harm is the story of a woman who is going through some major life changes, her marriage has fallen apart, she has breast cancer, and she ends up leaving the country to find herself.

I think that someone who has experienced more life than I (I believe I was only nineteen or twenty when I read this book) would enjoy it more.

Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem.

Molly Bridge

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Juliana

A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.

Bodily Harm

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