"I’m interested in the Gothic novel because it’s very much a woman’s form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, ‘Your husband is trying to kill you’?"
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Reported in Earl G. Ingersoll (ed.) Margaret Atwood: Conversations (1990)
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