Literary Fiction
By Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride (Special edition)
1993·863 pages
Three women confront the devastating impact of a manipulative femme fatale who has ruined their relationships and lives through deceit.
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Three women confront the devastating impact of a manipulative femme fatale who has ruined their relationships and lives through deceit.
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Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Charis, and Roz. All three "have lost men, spirit, money, and time to their old college acquaintance, Zenia. At various times,...
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Zenia seduces and steals the partners of the three main characters
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Explores themes of female friendship, betrayal, and gender dynamics
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Abuse & suffering
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Zenia's systematic emotional and relational destruction of three women
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