Author's Preface I started writing it in the spring and summer of 1965, when I was in British Columbia I have been teaching English to first-year freshmen for eight months, so I finished the whole book with some blank test papers. As for the title of this book, it goes back a year.I remember looking at the rows of almonds in the candy window one day Came up with it when I made a little hunt with meringue.Maybe it was in front of the window full of Mickey Mouse cakes in Woolworth, At any rate, a symbolic cannibal image was on my mind at the time.I was right then Of particular interest are wedding cakes decorated with figures of the bride and groom made of sugar.author brewing

I was only twenty-three when I wrote the book; I was only twenty-four when it was written, so the weird self-indulgence in this book Content may be all related to the author's youth, but I still tend to think that these plots mainly come from her social environment. Not my first novel.my first novel was for rent in toronto Written in a small room used to store brooms, the only three publishers in Canada at the time thought the book was too Gray and refused to adopt.That book ends with the heroine hesitating whether to push the hero off the roof. Such an ending was too advanced in 1963, but it may be too indecisive today.

I finished in November 1965, sending the manuscript to a representation of my previous work interested publishers there.At first, he replied a letter with a certain tone, but then he didn't follow up.I should At that time, I was busy preparing for the defense of my doctoral dissertation, so I didn't have time to ask questions.But after a year and a half I carried out Inquired, and found out that the publisher had lost the manuscript.At that time, my poems had already won prizes, which was somewhat small. Fame, so the publisher invited me out to dinner. "We've got your book out," he said, but avoided me.

s eyes. "Have you seen it?" I asked. "Not yet, but I'm going to look at it," he said.perhaps This isn't the first time he's published a book for purely embarrassing reasons. Published in 1969, four years after it was written, it coincided with The rise of the authoritarian movement.Some immediately claimed that the book was a product of the feminist movement.I myself thought, It is not so much feminism as it is a work of proto-feminism.Because when I set out to write in 1965 When I was working, there was no women's liberation movement at all, and I didn't have much vision, although I was also a lot of women at the time.

Like a human being, I locked my door and read Betty Fritton and Simon de Beauvoir.It is worth noting that, The choices faced by the heroine of this book are not very different at the end of the book than at the beginning: instead of choosing a new A career with no prospects is to marry as a way out of it.But these are the sixties The choices of early Canadian women, even the well-educated young women.if you think everything Something has changed, and that's not right.In fact, the tone of the book seems more appropriate to the present than to the past, For example, in 1971, people believed that the speed of social change would be very fast, but what we see today is not the same.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim that the post-feminist era has arrived are not guilty A lamentable mistake is to tire of thinking about the problem comprehensively. Since its inception, it has been published in North America many times in different forms.Villago out The author expresses his gratitude to the publishing house for publishing this book in the UK. Margaret Atwood in Edinburgh in 1979