Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Description
Description
Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood's definitive look at the role of the writer. 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 that writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain -- or excuse -- their activities, looking at what roles they have chosen to play. Margaret Atwood's wide and eclectic reference to other writers, living and dead, is balanced by personal anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer. The lightness of her touch is offset by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of western literature.
About the Author
About the Author
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A delight. . . . Frank and spirited. . . . A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live." --The Washington Post Book World
"An engaging book--erudite yet informal, playfully witty yet down to earth." --Los Angeles Times
"Smart, deeply humane, courageous. . . . I have never come across a single book that more elegantly goes to the heart of the craft and its demands. . . . Hooray for Atwood!" --Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun "This amazing woman's voice, this fine writer's constant example, is extraordinary." --The Boston Globe
"Smart, deeply humane, courageous. . . . I have never come across a single book that more elegantly goes to the heart of the craft and its demands. . . . Hooray for Atwood!" -Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun
"An engaging book--erudite yet informal, playfully witty yet down to earth." --Los Angeles Times
"Smart, deeply humane, courageous. . . . I have never come across a single book that more elegantly goes to the heart of the craft and its demands. . . . Hooray for Atwood!" --Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun "This amazing woman's voice, this fine writer's constant example, is extraordinary." --The Boston Globe
"Smart, deeply humane, courageous. . . . I have never come across a single book that more elegantly goes to the heart of the craft and its demands. . . . Hooray for Atwood!" -Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Pub date:
2003-09-09
Length:
256 pages
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