Inhaltsangabe
The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood’s work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaid's Tale, we trace the movement of Atwood’s fertile and curious mind in action over the years.
Atwood’s controversial political pieces, “Napoleon’s Two Biggest Mistakes” and “Letter to America” — both not-so-veiled warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq — also appear, alongside pieces that exhibit her active concern for the environment, the North, and the future of the human race. Atwood also writes about her peers: John Updike, Marina Warner, Italo Calvino, Marian Engel, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mordecai Richler, Elmore Leonard, and Ursula Le Guin.
This is a landmark volume from a major writer whose worldwide readership is in the millions, and whose work has influenced and entertained generations. Moving Targets is also the companion volume to the recently reissued Second Words.
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The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood’s work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaid's Tale, we trace the movement of Atwood’s fertile and curious mind in action over the years.
Atwood’s controversial political pieces, “Napoleon’s Two Biggest Mistakes” and “Letter to America” — both not-so-veiled warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq — also appear, alongside pieces that exhibit her active concern for the environment, the North, and the future of the human race. Atwood also writes about her peers: John Updike, Marina Warner, Italo Calvino, Marian Engel, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mordecai Richler, Elmore Leonard, and Ursula Le Guin.
This is a landmark volume from a major writer whose worldwide readership is in the millions, and whose work has influenced and entertained generations. Moving Targets is also the companion volume to the recently reissued Second Words.
Biografía del autor
MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her most recent books include Hag-Seed, a novel revisitation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest, and Angel Catbird -- featuring a cat-bird superhero -- a graphic novel with co-creator Johnnie Christmas. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, has won the Man Booker Award, and was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Recently, her novel The Handmaid's Tale was adapted for television to international acclaim, and Alias Grace was made into a CBC miniseries by director and actor Sarah Polley. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
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