Marion is determinedly ordinary. She likes her work, her broody flat-mate and sober fiance Peter. But she reckons without an inner self that wants something more. A subtle and penetrating...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Iris was married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but is now poor and eighty-two, and living in Port Ticonderoga. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Intrigued by contemporary reports of a sensational murder trial in 1843 Canada, Atwood has drawn a compelling portrait of what might have been.
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
In a world driven by shadowy, corrupt corporations and the uncontrolled development of new, gene-spliced life forms, a man-made pandemic occurs, obliterating human life. Two people find they have...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric,...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
In these ten dazzling interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
This cycle of poems is perhaps the most memorable evocation in modern Canadian literature of the myth of the wilderness, the immigrant experience, and the alienating and schizophrenic effects of...
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Author: Beattie, Owen, Geiger, John, Davis, Wade, Atwood, MargaretSummary:
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt -- a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of...
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Author: Wise, Leonard, Smart, Tom, Atwood, MargaretSummary:
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is...
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Author: Atwood, Margaret, Petričić, DušanSummary:
Wordplay and outrageous adventures rule the day in these three humorous stories from Margaret Atwood, with illustrations by Dušan Petričić. Now published together in a chapter book for the first...
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Author: Atwood, Margaret, Buffam, SuzanneSummary:
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...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood's work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing...