The Penelopiad
2005 • 199 pages

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Average rating3.6

15

Delightfully snarky

Not exactly as lyrical as Madeleine Miller, or even Pat Barker, it is a hoot.
Margaret Atwood's reimagining of Penelope's life from the point of view if her and the dozen of her maids that hung after mopping up the suitors' gore. It is recounted from Hades a few thousand years later, as a delightfully snarky feminist critique of a story from a decidedly non-feminist age.

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