Lady Oracle: A Novel

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8x5x0. First U.S. edition. Boards a bit soiled, edges foxed, minor wear to jacket corners with 1/2 inch closed tear on back edge, publisher (remainder?) stamp on page base. 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.