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Moral Disorder
Margaret Atwood’s internationally bestselling fiction includes The Handmaid’s Tale, Wilderness Tips, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, The Penelopiad, and, most recently, The Tent. She has received numerous honours, including the Booker Prize, The Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Premio Mondello in Italy, and Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. She lives in Toronto.


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Title of ebook: Moral Disorder
ISBN: 9780385519946
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
Internet download file size: 837 kb
Pages: 304
Released online for download: 09-19-2006
Author of eBook: Atwood, Margaret

Moral Disorder


Chapter One

THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN

For Halloween that year — the year my sister was two — I dressed up as the Headless Horseman. Before, I’d only ever been ghosts and fat ladies, both of which were easy: all you needed was a sheet and a lot of talcum powder, or a dress and a hat and some padding. But this year would be the last one I’d ever be able to disguise myself, or so I believed. I was getting too old for it — I was almost finished with being thirteen — and so I felt the urge to make a special effort.

Halloween was my best holiday. Why did I like it so much? Perhaps because I could take time off from being myself, or from the impersonation of myself I was finding it increasingly expedient, but also increasingly burdensome, to perform in public.

I got the Headless Horseman idea from a story we’d read in school. In the story, the Headless Horseman was a grisly legend and also a joke, and that was the effect I was aiming for. I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I’d studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn’t yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting ove ... read full excerpt from Moral Disorder ebook



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