"Atwood is a talented Canadian poet, critic and novelist. In her new novel...she shows herself to us as a skilled maker of funny-sat, inventive, and touching fiction....The tone in which [the author treats] love, especially the physical manifestations of it--sex and sexual passion--has not been captured so well and so humorously since Mary McCarthy's early novels and short stories and the recent work of Alison Lurie." - Billy T. Ball (Saturday Review, 9/18/76)
"In spite of many funny moments, 'Lady Oracle' moves too slowly and is basically too serious to distract us from its clumsy contrivances. And so the zany narrative, perhaps intended to spice a familiar tale of feminist woe, points all the more plainly to a deeper unanswered question: who are these people, anyway?....It may be that the genre is not congenial to Atwood's real gifts....Her best work is so original, so energetic, that one is tempted to guess that 'Lady Oracle' is for Atwood what Gothics were for Joan: a flight from the demands of her truest, most thoughtful self." - Jocelyn White (New York Times Book Review, 9/26/76)
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