ATWOOD, MARGARET — Moral Disorder

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 2006, 1st.Can Ed.. (ISBN: 0771008708) Hardcover. Book, ".a series of interrelated stories that trace the course of a life, and also the lives intertwined with it - those of parents, siblings, children, friends, enemies, teachers, and even animals. As in a photograph album, time is measured in sharp, clearly ovserved moments - the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death. The settings are equally varied: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests. The book opens in the present, as a couple no longer young regard themselves in a larger world no longer safe. The narrative then leads us back in time to the 1940s and progresses chronologically toward the present.' Author inscription om title page. As New/New. Inscribed by Author(s).