Margaret Atwood

Burning Questions

Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022

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Produktbeschreibung

In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from debt and tech to the climate crisis and freedom and the importance of how to define granola.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anchor / Penguin Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 130mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9780593314074
• ISBN-10: 0593314077
• Artikelnr.: 67836179

Autorenporträt

Margaret Atwood

© George Whiteside

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
 
Part I: 2004 to 2009 What Will Happen Next?
Scientific Romancing
Frozen in Time
From Eve to Dawn
Polonia
Somebody’s Daughter
Five Visits to the Word-Hoard
The Echo Maker
Wetlands
Trees of Life, Trees of Death
Ryszard Kapuściński
Anne of Green Gables
Alice Munro: An Appreciation
Ancient Balances
Scrooge
A Writing Life
 
Part II: 2010 to 2013 Art Is Our Nature
The Writer as Political Agent? Really?
Literature and the Environment
Alice Munro
The Gift
Bring Up the Bodies
Rachel Carson Anniversary
The Futures Market
Why I Wrote Maddaddam
Seven Gothic Tales
Doctor Sleep
Doris Lessing
How to Change the World?
 
Part III: 2014 to 2016 Which Is to Be Master
In Translationland
On Beauty
The Summer of the Stromatolites
Kafka
Future Library
Reflections on The Handmaid’s Tale
We Are Double-Plus Unfree
Buttons or Bows?
Gabrielle Roy
Shakespeare and Me
Marie-Claire Blais
Kiss of the Fur Queen
We Hang by a Thread
 
Part IV: 2017 To 2019 How Slippery Is the Slope?
What Art Under Trump?
The Illustrated Man
Am I A Bad Feminist?
We Lost Ursula Le Guin When We Needed Her Most
Three Tarot Cards
A Slave State?
Oryx and Crake
Greetings, Earthlings! What Are These Human Rights of Which You Speak?
Payback
Memory of Fire
Tell. The. Truth.
 
Part V: 2020 to 2021 Thought and Memory
Growing Up in Quarantineland
The Equivalents
Inseparable
We
The Writing of The Testaments
The Bedside Book of Birds
Perpetual Motion and Gentleman Death
Caught in Time’s Current
Big Science
Barry Lopez
The Sea Trilogy
 
 
Acknowledgements
Credits
Index

Rezensionen

This isn't just a collection of essays for Atwood fans. Rather, this is an attempt to make sense of the world, taking in with characteristic verve everything from Anne of Green Gables to Donald Trump, zombies to censorship . . . While the tone skates from surreal off-kilter wit to impassioned gravity, Atwood always makes the idea of big questions a little more digestible . . . The collection is polyphonic, enthusiastic, illuminating Sophie Macintosh i News