From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments--the "brilliant and funny" story (Joan Didion, bestselling author of Let Me Tell You What I Mean) of a woman whose attempts to escape herself become instead an occasion for confronting the self-deception that has driven her since childhood Joan Foster is a woman with numerous identities and a talent for shedding them at will. She has written trashy gothic romances, had affairs with a Polish count and an absurd avant-garde artist, and played at being a politically engaged partner to her activist husband.
After a volume of her poetry becomes an unexpected literary sensation, her new fame attracts a blackmailer threatening to reveal her secrets. Joan's response is to fake her own death and flee to a hill town in Italy.
Studded with hair-raising comic escapades and piercing psychological insights,
Lady Oracle is both hilarious and profound.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 04/13/1998
ISBN: 9780385491082
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.15w x 0.74d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 58653 / Lady Oracle
Reading Level: 6.8 /
Interest Level: Upper Grade /
Point Value: 20