Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose--1983-2005 - Couverture rigide

Atwood, Margaret

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0786715359 ISBN 13 : 9780786715350

Editeur : Basic Books, 2005

Synopsis

From one of the world's most passionately engaged literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces written for great works of literature, this is the award-winning author's first book-length nonfiction publication in twenty years. Arranged chronologically, these writings display the development of Atwood's worldview as the world around her changes. Included are the Booker Prize–winning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as essays in which she remembers herself reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and discusses the influence of George Orwell's 1984 on the writing of The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller can be found here, as well as a look back on a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her "Letter to America," written after September 11, 2001. The insightful and memorable pieces in this book serve as a testament to Atwood's career, reminding readers why she is one of the most esteemed writers of our time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Margaret Atwood's books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to THE HANDMAID'S TALE, her novels include CAT'S EYE—shortlisted for the Booker Prize; ALIAS GRACE, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; THE BLIND ASSASSIN, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; and ORYX AND CAKE. Her previous nonfiction book was SECOND WORDS (Beacon Press, 1984, 0807063584). She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786715359
• ISBN 13: 9780786715350
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
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• Personne responsable: non disponible