The Robber Bride

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The Robber Bride is a darkly comic, feminist novel by Margaret Atwood that reimagines a Grimm fairy tale through the intertwined lives of three women and their destructive, enigmatic friend.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
novel
author Margaret Atwood
basedOn Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Robber Bridegroom
countryOfOrigin Canada
focusesOn destructive influence of a charismatic woman
intertwined lives of three women
genre contemporary fiction
dark comedy
feminist fiction
novel
hasCharacter Charis
Roz
Tony
Zenia
hasEnigmaticCharacter Zenia
hasLiteraryForm prose
hasStructure multiple intertwined narratives
languageStyle ironic
satirical
literaryMovement postmodern literature
mainCharacter Charis
Roz
Tony
Zenia
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor darkly comic tone
reimagining a Grimm fairy tale in a contemporary feminist context
originalLanguage English
partOf Margaret Atwood bibliography
placeOfPublication New York City
Toronto
publicationYear 1993
publisher McClelland & Stewart
Nan A. Talese
settingCountry Canada
settingLocation Toronto
theme betrayal
deception
female friendship
feminism
identity
memory
power dynamics

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Margaret Atwood
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