Life Before Man

"A modern saga... she has a fine ear for words and a quick wit for absudities" - The Times

"An extraordinary imagination - witty, light-footed, realistic, yet with shooting insights into the nature of personality and love" - Isabel Quigley, Financial Times

"Tender, funny, absorbing, idiosyncratic, truthful, heartening... A liberating novel. It deserves a wide readership" - Michael Herbert, Literary Review

"Mordant intelligence; formidable insight into the springs of human self-deception, self-aggrandisement and self-destruction; and an effortless, always vivid style" - Jeffrey Meyers, Spectator

"Beautifully written and constructed... A rich and elegant achievement" - Peter Kemp, Listener

"Superb, complete - a splendid, fully integrated work." - The New York Times Book Review

"A penetrating, wry look at the changes affecting men, women and their family lives - The book has the acute perceptions and vivid imagery which are the hallmarks of Atwood's writing." - The Sunday Toronto Sun

"Crisp, carefully ironic, contemporary. Life Before Man offers us three characters of great complexity and roundness - Atwood has written a novel that is emotionally powerful, intelligent and very adult." - Ms. Magazine

"Tough poet, clever critic, brilliant novelist, feminist, nationalist, our chief literary heroine - a superb writer." - Toronto Star

"Margaret Atwood is a deeply serious writer who is also wildly funny." - Chatelaine

"Atwood writes with savage humor. Sentences are spare, kept under enormous compression, like a bent bow." - Esquire