Curious Pursuits - Margaret Atwood
Curious Pursuits - Margaret Atwood Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to call me up and make me an offer I can't…
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Curious Pursuits - Margaret Atwood
Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to call me up and make me an offer I can't refuse. Ranging from book reviews of John Updike and Toni Morrison to an appreciation of Dashiell Hammet&894 an account of a journey in Afghanistan that sowed the seeds of The Handmaid's Tale&894 passionate ecological writings&894 funny stories of ‘my most embarrassing moments'&894 obituaries of some of her great friends and fellow writers: Angela Carter, Mordecai Richler, Carol Shields. So in some ways this book is simply the result of an under-developed ability to say no.' Collected and published in the UK for the first time, here are essays and journalism from the brilliant novelist and poet.
This is an insightful, thoughtful and revealing record of the life and times and writings of Margaret Atwood from 1970 to the present.