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The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It's always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you're in your teens, a decade earlier feels like ancient history and the present moment seems normal: what exists now is surely what has always existed." Margaret Atwood compares the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to the Burgess Shale...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleCat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own id...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleBy turns humorous and warm, stark and poignant, the stories in Bluebeard's Egg probe childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women can inflict on one another. A tenuous teenage love affair fails to survive a hurricane, a man notices the women around him becoming progressively paler and smaller, a surgeon who specializes in hearts ...

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Telling the story of Homer's "Odyssey" from the point of view of Penelope and her 12 hanged maids, the bestselling author of "Oryx and Crake" draws on Greek mythology for Volume 2 in the Myths series.

Pese a ser conocida sobre todo como novelista, la escritora canadiense Margaret Atwood (Ottawa, 1939) ha publicado varios libros de poemas, entre los que destaca LOS DIARIOS DE SUSANNA MOODIE (1970), reescritura de un testimonio que los escolares canadienses estudian como emblema de la vida de los pioneros ingleses en su país. A la superficialidad con que la escritora decimonónica Susanna Modie narró las dificultades de su vida en el bosque (R...

Margaret Atwoods dystopischer Roman spielt in der nahen Zukunft in der Republik Gilead, einem religiös-fundamentalistischen Staat auf dem Territorium der heutigen USA. Die dort etablierte Gesellschaft ist der Alptraum jeder Frau. Abiturempfehlung zu den Themenbereichen Political systems, Religion und Utopia and Dystopia

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Novedad Septiembre 2001 Novela ganadora del Booker Prize 2000 En esta décima novela de Atwood confluyen elementos propios de géneros diversos (policiaco, memoralista, fantástico o confesional). La autora desarrolla, asimismo, tres hilos arguméntales, pues enmarca una historia de ciencia ficción en el relato sobre un adulterio que, a su vez, se inscribe dentro de una narración más larga sobre el amor y la disolución de una familia.

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller, In these exceptional short stories, by turns funny and searingly honest, Margaret Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

A collection of 11 stories which resemble a photo album - a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life and of the other lives intertwined with it - from the incomparable Margaret Atwood. 'An infinitely ingenious and perceptive study, as intimate as a self-portrait but with an epic breadth of vision' "Spectator

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In un Nord America messo in ginocchio da una disastrosa crisi economica e dal dilagare della criminalità, Stan e Charmaine, una giovane coppia innamorata, cedono alla falsa lusinga della normalità e della sicurezza promesse da un avvenente progetto, in cambio della rinuncia a qualche "piccola" libertà personale. Finiscono in una città troppo bella per essere vera, dove tutti hanno una casa e stanno bene, ma il prezzo è lavorare per un losco pe...

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Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn't talk about high finance or managing money, instead, she goes far deeper to explore debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By looking at how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day, from the stories we tell of revenge ...

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Four backlist Atwood allegorical, contemporary or otherwise incisive visions of the human experience. New cover art.