The Robber Bride - Tapa blanda

Remembering their painful experiences of the past in which they were each manipulated and betrayed by the same woman, Roz, Charis, and Tony are relieved at Zenia's funeral, and are shocked when Zenia turns up alive and well. Reprint.

e paradox of female villainy, this  tale of three fascinating women is another peerless  display of literary virtuosity by the supremely  gifted author of Cat's Eye and  The Handmaid's Tale. Roz, Charis  and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia.  Beautiful, smart and hungry, by turns manipulative  and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the  turbulent center of her own neverending saga. She  entered their lives in the sixties, when they were  in college. Over the three decades since, she has  damaged each of them badly, ensnaring their  sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men  as loot. Then Zenia dies, or at any rate the three  women -- with much relief -- attend her funeral.  But as The Robber Bride begins,  Roz, Charis and Tony have come together at a  trendy resta