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Moral Disorder: Stories
By Margaret Atwood
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 225 pages, $23.95
The interconnected tales here loop back and forth in time, in the life arc of a bookish, stoic heroine, from adolescence to old age. Margaret Atwood, winner of the 2005 baiduhai Literary Prize, ingeniously enriches her fiction with fiercely intelligent cultural analysis, psychological insight and wit.