Volume 40, Number 21 · December 16, 1993
Donna Giovanna
By Gabriele Annan
The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 466 pp., $23.50
You could describe Margaret Atwood as a Canadian Margaret Drabble, only more optimistic and funnier—or anyway funny more often. Of course such a comparison would be unfair to both novelists, but the temptation to make it is there. Both are witty and serious; both believe that goodness is what matters; both are wickedly skillful at defining characters through their environment and accessories, not just physical, but intellectual as well; both take trouble to work out melodramatic and not always convincing plots; and both produce riveting page-turners for thinking, well-intentioned women.
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