This collection of Margaret Atwood’s non-fiction pieces covers the years 2004 to 2021 and includes essays, memoirs, lectures, introductions, biographies, and reviews.
The subjects vary but some themes re-occur as ones close to her heart and mind: the natural world and the damage being wreaked on it; feminism and its evolution; and of course writing and literature.
The first two of these themes necessarily impinges on politics, and as a Canadian looking south in trepidation, events in the USA loom large.
On home turf of writing, various pieces give insights into her early influences and her most significant works, including The Handmaid’s Tale and the Oryx and Crake trilogy.
Whatever the subject she turns her hand to, the
outcome is a well crafted piece of writing with a sharpness of focus, a sprinkling
of wry humour, and a point to be made.
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