A curious collection of essays, seeking answers to BURNING QUESTIONS such as: Why do people everywhere tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us.
A curious collection of essays, seeking answers to BURNING QUESTIONS such as: Why do people everywhere tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat; Burning Questions, a selection of essays; and Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories. Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Part I: 2004 to 2009 What Will Happen Next? Scientific Romancing Frozen in Time From Eve to Dawn Polonia Somebody’s Daughter Five Visits to the Word-Hoard The Echo Maker Wetlands Trees of Life, Trees of Death Ryszard Kapuściński Anne of Green Gables Alice Munro: An Appreciation Ancient Balances Scrooge A Writing Life
Part II: 2010 to 2013 Art Is Our Nature The Writer as Political Agent? Really? Literature and the Environment Alice Munro The Gift Bring Up the Bodies Rachel Carson Anniversary The Futures Market Why I Wrote Maddaddam Seven Gothic Tales Doctor Sleep Doris Lessing How to Change the World?
Part III: 2014 to 2016 Which Is to Be Master In Translationland On Beauty The Summer of the Stromatolites Kafka Future Library Reflections on The Handmaid’s Tale We Are Double-Plus Unfree Buttons or Bows? Gabrielle Roy Shakespeare and Me Marie-Claire Blais Kiss of the Fur Queen We Hang by a Thread
Part IV: 2017 To 2019 How Slippery Is the Slope? What Art Under Trump? The Illustrated Man Am I A Bad Feminist? We Lost Ursula Le Guin When We Needed Her Most Three Tarot Cards A Slave State? Oryx and Crake Greetings, Earthlings! What Are These Human Rights of Which You Speak? Payback Memory of Fire Tell. The. Truth.
Part V: 2020 to 2021 Thought and Memory Growing Up in Quarantineland The Equivalents Inseparable We The Writing of The Testaments The Bedside Book of Birds Perpetual Motion and Gentleman Death Caught in Time’s Current Big Science Barry Lopez The Sea Trilogy
Part I: 2004 to 2009 What Will Happen Next? Scientific Romancing Frozen in Time From Eve to Dawn Polonia Somebody’s Daughter Five Visits to the Word-Hoard The Echo Maker Wetlands Trees of Life, Trees of Death Ryszard Kapuściński Anne of Green Gables Alice Munro: An Appreciation Ancient Balances Scrooge A Writing Life
Part II: 2010 to 2013 Art Is Our Nature The Writer as Political Agent? Really? Literature and the Environment Alice Munro The Gift Bring Up the Bodies Rachel Carson Anniversary The Futures Market Why I Wrote Maddaddam Seven Gothic Tales Doctor Sleep Doris Lessing How to Change the World?
Part III: 2014 to 2016 Which Is to Be Master In Translationland On Beauty The Summer of the Stromatolites Kafka Future Library Reflections on The Handmaid’s Tale We Are Double-Plus Unfree Buttons or Bows? Gabrielle Roy Shakespeare and Me Marie-Claire Blais Kiss of the Fur Queen We Hang by a Thread
Part IV: 2017 To 2019 How Slippery Is the Slope? What Art Under Trump? The Illustrated Man Am I A Bad Feminist? We Lost Ursula Le Guin When We Needed Her Most Three Tarot Cards A Slave State? Oryx and Crake Greetings, Earthlings! What Are These Human Rights of Which You Speak? Payback Memory of Fire Tell. The. Truth.
Part V: 2020 to 2021 Thought and Memory Growing Up in Quarantineland The Equivalents Inseparable We The Writing of The Testaments The Bedside Book of Birds Perpetual Motion and Gentleman Death Caught in Time’s Current Big Science Barry Lopez The Sea Trilogy
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