A review by abrswf
Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood

5.0

I savored every minute of this beautifully written and narrated book of linked short stories. Atwood seems incapable of producing sloppiness or wasted words. Her prose is crystalline. The stories clearly have a significant autobiographical component but they are also a sharp and penetrating examination of gendered power structures, and a sardonic tour of, among other things, rural Canada, the sixties, and complex family dynamics. Atwood also takes an unvarnished look at death and aging. I loved the whole collection but especially “The Bad News” and “My Last Duchess.”