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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I haven't read them yet, but based on "The Year of the Flood", I'd be VERY surprised if the romance was of the "Heaving Bosoms" sort!
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Is it me, or is there a slight feminist tinge to the novels of Margaret Atwood?
I don't go for writers with an unsubtle political agenda, and I think some female 'literary' authors lay it on a bit thick (Fay Weldon, A. S, Byatt et al). That's not to say men don't do it too, e.g. 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and 'His Dark Materials' both suffer from heavy-handed pontificating.
But I feel many women writers, perhaps from a justified sense of grievance, can't resist delivering a 'message' of some sort or other; and it is seldom acheived without harming the book.