The Penelopiad
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 Book cover of the first U.K. edition |
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| Author | Margaret Atwood |
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| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Parallel novel |
| Publisher | Knopf Canada |
| Released | October 11, 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 216 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 067697418X |
The Penelopiad is a 2005 parallel novel by Margaret Atwood. The story takes an alternate view of the story of Odysseus by focusing on Odysseus's wife, Penelope, and Penelope's twelve hanged maids. Most of the novel follows Penelope's struggle when Odysseus takes twenty years to return from Troy.
Atwood uses material from The Odyssey to spin a yarn about how Penelope waited for twenty years for Odysseus to return, giving clues as to what she did to evade the suitors, did she collude with the maids to evade them, or did she herself fall for the suitors and betrayed Odysseus; and when he returned, got the maids killed to save herself. Margaret Atwood uses present day feminist voices, myths and legends to spin a parallel yarn of The Odyssey.
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- Washington Post review by Elizabeth Hand (accessed: January 11, 2006)
- Daily Telegraph review by Christopher Tayler (accessed: January 11, 2006)
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