"This guide deals with Atwood's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts is accompanied by likely exam questions as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a biography, a bibliography and a glossary of literary terms. Book jacket."--Jacket.