Lady Oracle: A Novel

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x0. First U.S. edition. Very good in good jacket. Ink note on front endpaper, tear along top edge of rear jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed. 1976 Hard Cover. 345 pp. Author's third novel. 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 Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time.