Author: Margaret Atwood. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON., 1981, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition HARDCOVER Book, and Almost New Condition Dust Jacket, with 1/4 inch tear along back top-edge. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inch, 301 pages.
BODILY HARM, is ultimately an exploration of human defensiveness, the lust for power, both sexual and political, and the need for a compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.
Rennie Wilford is a freelance journalist who takes an assignment in the Caribbean in the hopes of recuperating from her recently shattered life. On the tiny island of St. Antoine, she tumbles into a corrupt world where no one is what they seem, where her rules for survival no longer apply. This is a thoroughly gripping novel of intrigue and betrayal, which explores human defensiveness, the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for a compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love. The enigma unfolds as it would for any innocent bystander swept up by events, bringing along the scruples, and the fears, of the past.
