epub | 9.01 MB | English| Isbn:9780307797971 | Author: Margaret Atwood | Year: 1993

Quote:[b][b][b]From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale [b][b][b]and The Testaments-o[/b][/b][/b]ne of Margaret Atwood's most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends.[/b] [/b]
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Roz, Charis, and Tony-university classmates decades ago-were reunited at Zenia's funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through their lives. A brilliantly inventive fabulist, Zenia had a talent for exploiting her friends' weaknesses, wielding intimacy as a weapon and cheating them of money, time, sympathy, and men.

But one day, five years after her funeral, they are shocked to catch sight of Zenia: even her death appears to have been yet another fiction. As the three women plot to confront their larger-than-life nemesis, Atwood proves herself a gleefully acute observer of the treacherous shoals of friendship, trust, desire, and power.