the anti-heroine of an era of bathtub gin, organized crime, and jazz, clouded in the smoke of fired guns and cigarettes.
“I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart. It’s mostly a question of editing. If you’d wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.”
— "Life Stories" (The Tent), Margaret Atwood.
— "Life Stories" (The Tent), Margaret Atwood.