The Penelopiad

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by Atwood, Margaret | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published 23/10/2025 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom Hardback | 224 pages220 x 141mm | 333g 20th ANNIVERS ARY EDITIONWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHORAND AN AFTERWORD BY PHILIP PULLMAN Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making . . . So I'll spin my own thread. Penelope . . . immortalised in legend and Greek myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return from the Trojan war. Now, in Atwood's wise and witty retelling of the myth, Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder. Show more