Review: The Heart Goes Last: Positron Episode Four (Margaret Atwood)

A confession: there are few people I adore blindly and turn into a crazed fangirl about. Margaret Atwood is one of those people.

That said... every author must write their share of "stage directions," the necessary dull bits, the "s/he saids," the do-ing. To reference this blog, they must get Raoul into the elevator. It's not fancy but Raoul must get in the elevator. This was Positron's stage directions.

Positron is Margaret Atwood's serialized novel published through byliner. [If you don't subscribe to byliner, you should. It's fantastic.] Atwood creates another dystopian world (think: a highly structured alternative to the world of her MaddAddam trilogy). Episodes 1-3 were tense and titillating(ep. 1), frustrated (2), and hopelessly bleak (3).  Episode 4 was simply necessary.

However, Atwood's prose is, as ever, unique, sharp, and wholly entertaining. Stage directions or no, I will read anything by a writer who describes two characters as “fornicating like weasels on a griddle.”