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	Books : The Robber Bride at Connected Globe
		Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by 'The Robber Bridegroom,' a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one.
		The Robber Bride is a novel by Margaret Atwood that delves into the dark depths of women's relationships with each other.
		The story of "The Robber Bride" is told through the eyes of three women -- not really friends, in some senses of the word, but united by a long-time bond and a common loathing.
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		The Robber Bride is a novel to delight in - for its consummately crafted prose, for its rich and devious humor, and, ultimately, for its compassion.
		The Robber Bride by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1993)
		The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (1993) HC/DJ
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	Robber Bridegroom: Tales of Type 955
		The terrified bride could not answer, and the cannibal pushed her into a cave, saying further, "Ask the dear Lord to give you a good idea, and during the night prepare yourself to die!" Then he went into an adjoining cave.
		The poor bride put her ear against the side of the ditch, and when she could no longer hear the earth trembling, she wearily climbed out and limped to the well in order to dress herself a little.
		The robber was cursing and writhing in his own blood, and the prince had him thrown into the pot filled with oil.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/type0955.html (2750 words)

	Seduction and Betrayal -- The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
		The Robber Bride fits in as a kind of contemporary purgatory between the prefeminist hell of Cat's Eye and the post-feminist puritanical "paradise" of The Handmaid's Tale (1986).
		In The Robber Bride Atwood sets sexual and sentimental adventures into the hortatory frame of fable, gambling that she can turn the resulting melodrama to her own sophisticated ends.
		Yet The Robber Bride is evidence that she can't have it both ways quite as effortlessly as she hopes.
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	Books@Random \| The Robber Bride: Readers' Group Companion
		The beautiful bride moved from one room to the next and explored the entire house, but it was completely empty.
		When the bride heard that, she came out from behind the barrel and had to step over the sleeping bodies lying in rows on the ground.
		"One of the robbers saw that a gold ring was still on her finger, and since he had trouble pulling it off, he took a hatchet and chopped it off.
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	The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Robber Bride follows the lives of three women who have been injured by a mutual friend, Zenia, a sociopath whose only joy is hurting people.
		The U.S. paperback edition of The Robber Bride quotes People magazine in a cover blurb: "Its unforgettable temptress causes worlds of trouble, 'just for the fun of it.'" But Zenia is quite forgettable, frankly; she barely exists, a colorless cartoon compared to the three living woman she tries to poison.
		It is still possible to reach the Random House "Reader's Companion" page for The Robber Bride, which has some useful interpretive materials, including a few Atwood poems and her address to the American Bookseller's Association the year the book was published.
	www.dancingbadger.com /rbride.htm (1901 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - THE ROBBER BRIDE by Margaret Atwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		ReadingGroupGuides.com - THE ROBBER BRIDE by Margaret Atwood
		The seemingly disparate trio are bonded by their mutual hatred and fear of a fourth classmate, the evil marauder Zenia, who has the power to bridge their defenses, steal their lovers, and even to come back from the dead and bewitch their children with her nefarious wiles.
		Zenia systematically befriends and betrays each of the women, metaphorically slaying one a decade, enabling Atwood to romp and rampage through the sexual and cultural history of the past 30 years.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/robber_bride.asp (763 words)

	An Author Who Lets Women Be Bad Guys
		In "The Robber Bride" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), she turns to relationships between women, as she did in her previous novel, "Cat's Eye," an examination of women's cruelty to women.
		Atwood explained in an interview in Boston during a quick stop in her three-country book tour ("The Robber Bride" has been published so far in the United States, Britain and Canada), she sees her latest creation as the heiress to a formidable literary tradition that has lately been sadly lacking.
		The novel's title comes from a Grimm fairy tale, "The Robber Bridegroom," the story of a young woman betrothed to a man who doesn't mean to marry her, but rather to rob her and chop her into bits (she figures it out, and he gets killed in the end).
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/09/03/specials/atwood-badguys.html (1231 words)

	THE ROMANCE READER reviews: Robber Bride by Deborah Simmons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Robber Bride is a modestly enjoyable tale that begins well but eventually stagnates under a plot that crawls where it should sprint.
		Yet Simon can't stand the inactivity of the Castle he's protecting in his brother's name, so he takes to the forest to aid Bethia in her attempt to regain her home.
		There are entertaining elements of Robber Bride, particularly lovemaking spirited enough to put hair on the heroine's chest.
	www.theromancereader.com /simmons-robber.html (482 words)

	The Robber Bride - Health Care Products - HealthCareStuff.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		They are different women in how they live their lives; however, they are similar in that they have vulnerabilities that are exploited by one of the group, who constantly torments them.
		Each woman's narrative seems sufficient foundation for a book even without Zenia's intrusion; combined, "The Robber Bride" is a tapestry of carefully woven strands, seen individually and successively through each woman's perspective.
		"The Robber Bride" is a triumphant look at the core of three women and the multifaceted surface of the one who defined them.
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	The Robber Bride Book at Shop Ireland
		I suppose The Robber Bride could really appeal to a certain reader; women who have, at one point in their lives, allowed themselves to be taken advantage of and who have had low self-images.
		One of the best books I have ever read, The Robber Bride is a work to read at one [very long] sitting, and then read again, and again, and again.
		Atwood creates a world so real that you can touch it, and the extraordinary things which happen there are utterly convincing and deeply moving.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/1853817228 (922 words)

	Robber Bride, The - Margaret Atwood - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Robber Bride, The - Margaret Atwood : Fear and loathing in Toronto
		First published in 1993, “The Robber Bride” was the eighth novel by Margaret Atwood, distinguished Canadian novelist, poet and short-story writer.
		She excels in intricate construction and hers is a clear, seemingly effortless transparency of the language: like if it wasn`t there, like if nothing mediated between the reader and the tale.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/robber-bride-the-margaret-atwood (274 words)

	I have spent some time wondering why the word ‘Bitch’ on the cover of “The Bitch is Back” is fracturing, in ...
		Aguiar prefers to believe that "the bitch’s ubiquitous presence in all – not just male-written literature – attests to her lasting endurance": this character, she suggests, is a key Jungian archetype ("the woman dominated by animus"), and not a figure who can be so lightly written out of literary history.
		Aguiar is clearly well-acquainted with Margaret Atwood’s fiction and her critical pronouncements; the latter, in fact, become a key motif threading through the book.
		And, it strikes me, Aguiar’s reading of The Robber Bride, is interesting precisely to the extent that her approach coincides with, or derives from, Atwood’s own.
	bookwire.com /bookwire/bbr/reviews/june2001/aguiar-review.htm (1471 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Robber Bride: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		However..."entertaining" doesn't often go hand-in-hand with "substantive," and sadly I think "Robber Bride" is more of the former and not much of the latter.
		The Robber Bride, the second book I have read by Margaret Atwood, explores the lives of three richly believable characters.
		The plot is part mystery, part romance, part coming-of-age tale mixed up with a tinge of feminist ideology and a lot of profound observations on North American (specifically, Canadian) life in the mid-late 20th century.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771008546 (1078 words)

	Authors on the Web - Margaret Atwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		At the age of six, she says she began writing "poems, morality plays, comic books and an unfinished novel about an ant." So it comes as little surprise that this literary girl would grow up to become one of Canada's major contemporary authors of fiction, poetry and essays.
		Among her most recent works are the bestselling novels The Robber Bride, Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin, in addition to the collections Wilderness Tips and Bluebeard's Egg.
		In her latest novel, Oryx and Crake, Atwood invites her audience to enter the future of our own world, a bleak and terrifying place that has been destroyed in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster and is populated by characters who readers won't soon forget.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/authormonth/0305atwood/atwood-margaret.asp (604 words)

	Every Wife's Nightmare
		In "The Robber Bride" we meet three friends from college -- Tony, Charis and Roz -- and their common nemesis and classmate, the beautiful, evil Zenia.
		Atwood, and in "The Robber Bride" she self-consciously throws up her hands: "Every ending is arbitrary," she writes, a little lamely, "because the end is where you write The end."
		Still, "The Robber Bride" is as smart as anything Ms.
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	Amazon.com: The Robber Bride: Books: Margaret Atwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		THE ROBBER BRIDE is yet another cleverly written novel by Margaret Atwood, who most recently was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 for her apocalyptic book ORYX AND CRAKE.
		THE ROBBER BRIDE follows a similar theme as her novel CAT'S EYE, in which four girls form a clique of friendship, while one of the girls becomes the ring leader, tormenting one of the other girls endlessly till near-tragedy strikes.
		However, in THE ROBBER BRIDE, we are now looking at four women, whose history begins in college.
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	Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The story of The Robber Bride is told through the eyes of three women -- not really friends, in some senses of the word, but united by a
		It is interesting to conjecture the different lives these women might lead if Zenia had not targeted their vulnerable places.
		Perhaps better, perhaps worse -- but far less interesting -- The Robber Bride is a triumphant look at the core of three women and the multifaceted surface of the one who defined them.
	www.rambles.net /atwood_rbride93.html (336 words)

	To Join, to Fit, and to Make:The Creative Craft of Margaret Atwood's Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Although its subtitle refers to Margaret Atwood's fiction, in fact the book focuses primarily on three novels, Cat's Eye, Lady Oracle, and The Robber Bride, and on one short story, 'Isis in Darkness.' Moreover, the term 'creative craft' is a problematic indicator of the book's approach to Atwood.
		Although the introduction and conclusion focus on Atwood's creative craft (as incorporating the ideas Atwood expounds about craftsperson, craftiness, and witchcraft), the central portion of the book is a more wide-ranging exploration of literary antecedents and motifs, structural devices such as biography and autobiography, and themes such as storytelling or myth.
		She draws interesting parallels between Zenia in The Robber Bride and Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
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	Amanda M. Holland-Minkley
		This was another book where an adult woman looks back on her relationship with women and with her own coming to terms with what it means to be a woman.
		Another member of the book discussion list mentioned that in one of the short stories by Atwood that she just read there is a questioning of who other people really are, and who they think you are.
		But in Cat's Eye, moreso than in The Robber Bride, there is some acceptance of the fact that perhaps Cordelia has her own side of the story.
	www.cs.cornell.edu /Info/People/hollandm/reviews/CatsEye.html (338 words)

	The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The robber bride by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (43 copies; separate)
		Robber Bride, The by Margaret Atwood (2 copies; separate)
		Robber Bride by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (2 copies; separate)
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	The Robber Bride Summary / Study Guide
		The novel's title draws immediate attention to its precursor text: the Grimm fairy tale of "The Robber Bridegroom," long a favorite with Atwood and one that has informed other pieces of her writing.
		Throughout her career Atwood has acknowledged the Brothers Grimm as a seminal influence upon her imagination, having read their work in a fondly remembered Pantheon edition very early in childhood and finding their tales of metamorphoses a magical complement to the biological lessons offered by her entomologist father.
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	Feminist SFF & Utopia: Reviews: Margaret Atwood
		The Robber Bride is actually a realistic novel, but it is also a retelling of the fairy tale "The Robber Bride." Similarly to Angela Carter, Atwood shows women with flaws and women who are evil, but portrays them understandably and well.
		In a reading from The Robber Bride at Women and Children First in Chicago in late 1993, Atwood commented that for women to be recognized as fully human, it must be recognized that they have the capacity for evil as well as for good.
		She definitely displays that in The Robber Bride.
	feministsf.org /reviews/atwood.m.html (606 words)

	Bibliography: The Robber Bride
		1993 - The Robber Bride James Tiptree, Jr.
		Robber Bride Seal Cassette (Oct 1993, Seal, 0770439861, unk)
		The Robber Bride (Jan 1998, Anchor, 0385491034, $15.00, 528pp, tp)
	isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/title.cgi?6438 (82 words)

	The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood: Mirror, Mirror...
		The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood: Mirror, Mirror...
		Reviews of The Blind Assassin, The Robber Bride, and Alias Grace.
		I have posted an annotated bibliography of her work and reviews of The Antelope Wife and her newest novel, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.
	www.dancingbadger.com /rbride04.htm (1350 words)

	Deborah Simmons - Home
		Taming The Wolf, The de Burgh Bride, and Robber Bride were illustrated by Nanao Hidaka, who will complete the de Burgh series.
		The Brides of Christmas anthology is being reissued for this holiday season in a beautiful trade sized edition with large type.
		In it, Simmons revisits Campion Castle, where the worst weather in living memory threatens to curtail celebrations until the arrival of a mysterious visitor who changes the course of the holiday - and the lives of the de Burghs.
	www.deborahsimmons.com (561 words)

	Reconnecting with the past: Personal hauntings in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride Papers on Language and Literature ...
		Reconnecting with the past: Personal hauntings in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride
		In her latest novel, Atwood draws from a similar folkloric tradition and narrative strategy to give added meaning and depth to another contemporary ghost story already imbued with a multiplicity of layers, ranging from the biblical and the folkloric to the metaphysical, psychological, and the Eastern philosophical.
		Drawing from these various rich traditions and perspectives, The Robber Bride becomes a creation or rather a recreation of a ghost story in which the three central protagonists-Roz, Tony, and Charis-unconsciously summon through their "passions" a trickster-like woman from their past back into their lives.
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	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Margaret Atwood
		She is the author of more than twenty-five volumes of poetry, nonfiction and fiction, including two children's books, and three volumes of short stories.
		Her eighth novel, THE ROBBER BRIDE, has her trademark virtuoso wit and trenchant gaze, this time employed on a tale of three women, once classmates at the University of Toronto, and the influence wielded on them by a fourth classmate--the seductive and destructive Zenia.
		Atwood's 30 volumes of poetry, essays and fiction include feminist novels such as SURFACING, THE EDIBLE WOMAN, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, THE ROBBER BRIDE, CAT'S EYE and her most recent, ALIAS GRACE (1996).
	www.bookreporter.com /AUTHORS/au-atwood-margaret.asp (1950 words)

	The Robber Bride on All Consuming
		A few years ago (before BookCrossing existed), I was on my way to a bar downtown and I walked through the nearby park to throw away some trash.
		On the park bench, I saw a tattered copy of “Robber Bride”.
		My first instinct was to grab it and after a few minutes of rationalizing that the person who left it there did it on purpose, I did take it.
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