Margaret Atwood

Burning Questions (eBook, ePUB)

The Sunday Times bestseller from Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Burning Questions Atwood aims her constant curiosity and impish humour at our world and reports back to us on what she finds.

In it she seeks answers to Burning Questions such as:

• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?
• How can we live on our planet?
• What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?

The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe.

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'A wonderfully written insight into everything from zombies to the climate crisis' Stylist

'The mighty Margaret Atwood writes about everything from granola to Trump' The Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473594357
• Artikelnr.: 61999570

Autorenporträt

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.

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Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
 
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
 
 
Acknowledgements
Credits
Index