Description
This selection of Atwood's poetry is a substantial new introduction to her work in one volume, drawing on The Circle Game, The Animals in That Country, The Journals of Susanna Moodie (complete), Procedures for Underground, Power Politics, You are Happy, Two-headed Poems, True Stories and Interlunar.
About the author
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, part of the Massey Lecture series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Other titles by
Big Girls Don't Cry
A Memoir About Taking Up Space
Los testamentos / The Testaments
Paper Boat
New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023
Chicas bailarinas / Dancing Girls
El cuento de la criada, / The Handmaid's Tale
The Canadian Shields
Stories and Essays
El asesino ciego / The Blind Assassin
Farley and Claire
A Love Story
Cuestiones candentes: Una mirada crítica a la realidad actual, desde el feminism o hasta el cambio climático / Burning Questions
Old Babes in the Wood
Stories