Atwood, who was born in Ottawa in 1939, has been the most famous Canadian author for decades. She published her first book, a collection of poems, in 1961, and has since written, among other things, seventeen novels, sixteen poetry collections, ten works of nonfiction, eight short-story collections, and seven children's books! Margaret Atwood Expands the World of "The Handmaid's Tale ...www.newyorker.com /magazine/2019/09/16/ ...Margaret Atwood Expands the World of "The Handmaid's Tale" In "The Testaments," the novelist examines the kinds of complicity that are required for constructing such a frightening future.!! As a novelist, she has a wide tonal range, moving from sarcasm to solemnity, austerity to playfulness; she can toggle between extremes of subtlety and unsubtlety from book to book. In her "MaddAddam" trilogy, begun in the early two-thousands and set in a near-future world where overpopulation leads society to reduce everything to its base functionality, Atwood takes aim at technocracy and corporate control: people eat "ChickieNobs," the product of genetically engineered chickens that consist of a mouth surrounded by twenty breast-meat tubes; the Crakers, a humanoid race designed for a minimum of trouble and a maximum of efficiency, have giant penises that turn blue when the females of the species are in heat. "Cat's Eye," on the other hand, which was published in 1988, is a quiet study of the ways that women and girls are gently and devastatingly cruel to one another! The New Yorker: Margaret Atwood Expands the World of "The ...-handmaid...Books Margaret Atwood Expands the World of "The Handmaid's Tale" In "The Testaments," the novelist examines the kinds of complicity that are required for constructing such a frightening future.!! I reread it recently, and felt a sensation I associate with reading Atwood: nothing was really happening, but I was riveted, and fearful, as if someone were showing me footage of a car crash one frame at a time.
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People are always coming up with new theories of the #novel, but the main one is: Hold My Attention. MARGARET ATWOO… https://t.co/TGYZ6nv1WE AdviceToWriters (from Los Angeles, CA) Mon Sep 30 01:00:00 +0000 2019
"Sometimes people are surprised that a woman would write such things." —Margaret Atwood https://t.co/lfaWNbKJVD parisreview (from New York, NY) Mon Sep 30 02:02:00 +0000 2019
From Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments" to Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Water Dancer," here are the most anticipated book… https://t.co/qwU8Vm5nhb TIME Sat Sep 28 17:30:15 +0000 2019
Margaret Atwood long rejected calls for a "Handmaid's Tale" sequel because, she says, she knew she couldn't re-crea… https://t.co/7gMNn6Dgar TIME Sat Sep 28 11:30:10 +0000 2019
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