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Bodily Harm

By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Angela Nevard
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From the author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Handmaid’s Tale - now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series - and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.

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.

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Meh

I love Margaret Atwood, but not this story. Not only did I find the main character to be uninteresting, there was absolutely nothing likeable about her. I only found the stories about her family to be interesting. I was also not a fan of the narrator. Couldn't finish it.

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Not her best

A sometimes journalist writes articles, then gets cancer, then goes on vacation, then hooks up. Let me save you the money. this is like Atwood diluted with 85% nothingness.

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So boring.

I’m bummed. I love most of her works but this is a total snooze. Pass.

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Boring

I couldn't finish this as it was so uninteresting. I didn't care about the characters or the plot, was just trying to finish for the sake of finishing.

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Worst Atwood story. I kept thinking that someone else actually wrote it!!

Disliked story, character and reader. Nothing of the usual Atwood humor and ingenuity. Can’t believe she wrote it.

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