Margaret Atwood is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Canadian literature. Her works enjoy constant success throughout the English-speaking world, many translated into other languages. "Accomplishment" (1972) - one of the early novels of the writer, thanks to which she - a young but already famous poet - has won a strong reputation as a talented, original prose writer. The novels of Margaret Atwood invite the reader to an honest and frank conversation about the fate of a woman - our contemporary. Heroes Atwood - ordinary Canadians, shown in their everyday, everyday life, but behind these unremarkable fates, sometimes tragicomic, is the drama of a whole generation - the drama of loneliness, alienation, general indifference and misunderstanding.