The Penelopiad

INLCUDES A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR 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 Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Atwood
• Assisted by: Margaret Atwood (Foreword), Philip Pullman (Afterword)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.10.2025
• EAN: 9781837260928
• ISBN: 978-1-83726-092-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Canons; Canongate Canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Feminist, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales