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Dieci giorni dopo la fine della guerra mia sorella Laura precipitò con l'auto giù da un ponte." Sono queste le prime parole, semplici ma inquietanti, con cui Iris Chase, la voce narrante del romanzo, decide, a ottantadue anni, di raccontare le tormentate vicende della sua famiglia nell'arco di quasi un secolo. Ma sin dall'inizio il racconto di Iris viene interrotto dagli stralci di un altro romanzo, una scabrosa storia d'amore scritta dalla so...

#1 New York Times bestseller • Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood. An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, coming September 2019. In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led ...

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Lo personal es lo político" afirmaba un famoso slogan feminista de los años setenta. Juegos de poder glosa poéticamente esta declaración. Atwood es escritora política en el sentido más amplio de la palabra, y desde sus comienzos ha mostrado gran interés por analizar la dialéctica del poder. Miembro de Amnistía Internacional y fundadora del Sindicato de Escritores de Canadá, la política, entendida como la manera en que las personas se relaciona...

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A boxed set (three trade paperbacks) of the internationally celebrated speculative fiction trilogy from one of the most visionary authors of our time, Margaret Atwood. Across three stunning novels-Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and Maddaddam-the best-selling, Booker Prize-winning novelist projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining. In Oryx and Crake, a man struggles to survive in a world where...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleIn this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth.As Toby explains their origins to the curious Crakers, her tales cohere into a lumi...

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The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works, such as Power Politics, Bodily Harm, and Alias Grace. Atwood writes compassionately about the risks of love in a technological age, and the quest for identity in a universe that c...

Although poetry is one of the oldest art forms and cinema one of the youngest, a symbiosis exists between the two an interchange of metaphor, rhythm, point-of-view. No surprise, then, that so many contemporary poets write about film and the magnitude of its effect on modern life. Featuring work by some of the most acclaimed poets writing in Canada today (and three from the USA), this collection includes poems inspired by the full range of cine...

In un mondo pericolosamente vicino al nostro, la Creatura si è sostituita al suo Creatore e, grazie all'ingegneria genetica, ha stravolto la Natura. La fede nella scienza è ormai un credo assoluto, integralista, fanatico. Tutto si vende, tutto si compra - l'identità, il sesso, la giovinezza - ma a che prezzo? Eppure c'è chi ha deciso di sottrarsi a questa logica perversa e distruttiva: è la setta dei Giardinieri di Dio. Novelli Adami e Ève, vi...

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La porta è la raccolta di poesie più recente di Margaret Atwood pubblicata nel 2007. Le cinquantuno poesie scandagliano il mistero della creatività, il passaggio del tempo e la consapevolezza della mortalità. Coraggioso e compassionevole The Door - La porta interroga le certezze che faticosamente costruiamo intorno alle nostre vite. L'opera consacra Atwood tra i maggiori e più amati poeti contemporanei. La porta è punteggiata da riflessioni su...

Features poems that range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality.

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. 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. Ranging from book reviews of John Updike and Toni Morrison to ...