Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes.Īt first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers.
They desperately need to turn their situation around - and fast.
Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs.
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.
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