On Writers and Writing
$24.06
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
10 March 2015
Summary
By the author of THE HANDMAID’S TALE and *ALIAS GRACE*
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. In he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349006239 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349006237 |
| Author: | Margaret Atwood |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 10 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 134mm x 18mm |
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Juggling well worn subjects which ‘get murky or pretentious’, this is a streetwise, erudite suggestive enquiry into problems and myths of the writer’s role. Her light touch on hard thoughts, her humour and eclectic quotations, lend enchantment to an argument that has as many undulating tentacles as a well developed sea anemone - Independent
Her witty, occasionally self-depracating and always ingenious approach is a delight - Sunday TimesA witty and profound rumination about writing - The TimesA playful, informed and briskly sensible discussion of the writing life - Sunday TelegraphAbout The Author
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.
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