Margaret Atwood, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (120p) ISBN 978-0-618-94272-5
The first book of poems in 12 years from the now world-famous Canadian author (The Handmaid's Tale) combines an older writer's reflections on aging with the dire warnings-political, environmental and moral-familiar from Atwood's recent fiction....
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Margaret Atwood. Doubleday/Talese, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-54035-3
In the dystopian landscape of the unflappable Atwood’s (Stone Mattress) latest novel, there are “not enough jobs, and too many people,” which drives married couple Stan and Charmaine to become interested in the Positron Project, a community that...
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Margaret Atwood. Doubleday/Talese, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-53912-8
Atwood, a bestselling master of fiction, delivers a stunning collection—her first since 2006's Moral Disorder. Most of the nine stories feature women who have been wronged as girls but recover triumphantly as adults. Atwood brings her biting wit to...
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Margaret Atwood. Doubleday/Talese, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-52878-8
The final entry in Atwood’s brilliant MaddAddam trilogy roils with spectacular and furious satire. The novel begins where Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood end, just after most of the human species has been eradicated by a man-made plague....
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Margaret Atwood. Doubleday/Talese, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-53396-6
Atwood has a long and complex relationship with science fiction, and this mix of essays and short fiction represents her most sustained examination of the genre to date. Famously having refused the label “science fiction” for such novels as The...
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Margaret Atwood, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-75591-4
In her first poetry collection since 1987's Selected Poems II, Atwood brings a swift, powerful energy to meditative poems that often begin in domestic settings and then broaden into numinous dialogues. In ``In the Secular Night,'' the speaker, who...
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Margaret Atwood, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.45 (281p) ISBN 978-0-395-40424-9
""Conversations in our family were not about feelings,'' recalls the teenage narrator of ``Hurricane Hazel''about her breakup with a boyfriend who ``meant what is usually called absolutely nothing to me''in Atwood's (The Handmaid's Tale, etc.)...
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Margaret Atwood, Author Nan A. Talese $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47571-6
Intrigued by contemporary reports of a sensational murder trial in 1843 Canada, Atwood has drawn a compelling portrait of what might have been. Her protagonist, the real life Grace Marks, is an enigma. Convicted at age 16 of the murder of her...
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Margaret Atwood, Author Bantam Books $7.85 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-56905-6
The author of Cat's Eye depicts a femme fatale's malevolent role in the lives of three women; a seven-week PW bestseller. (Mar.)
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Margaret Atwood, Author Bantam $6.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28247-4
Atwood writes in an autobiographical vein about a middle-aged Canadian painter who is thrust into an extended reconsideration of her past, including one particularly strange friendship, while attending a retrospective of her work in Toronto. PW...
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Margaret Atwood, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (446p) ISBN 978-0-385-26007-7
Herself the daughter of a Canadian forest entomologist, Atwood writes in an autobiographical vein about Elaine Risley, a middle-aged Canadian painter (and daughter of a forest entomologist) who is thrust into an extended reconsideration of her past...
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Margaret Atwood, Author Anchor Books $15.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-49044-3
In Atwood's latest, the notorious 19th-century murderess Grace Marks tells her story in a Toronto asylum. (Nov.)
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Margaret Atwood, Author . Carroll & Graf $26 (427p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1535-0
Atwood is, of course, one of the most famous and prolific Canadian novelists of our time (The Blind Assassin
, etc.), and this eclectic collection ably testifies to the scope of her interests and passions. These are occasional pieces, and as such,...
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Margaret Atwood, Author . Doubleday/Talese $18 (158p) ISBN 978-0-385-51668-6
Biting anger, humor and interest in the fantastic have marked inimitable Atwood works like The Handmaid's Tale
, The Blind Assassin
and Oryx and Crake
. In this odd set of terse, mostly prose ripostes, Atwood takes stock of life and career—
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Margaret Atwood, Author . Doubleday/ Talese $24.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-385-50384-6
An intriguing patchwork of poignant episodes, Atwood's latest set of stories (after The Tent
) chronicles 60 years of a Canadian family, from postwar Toronto to a farm in the present. The opening piece of this novel-in-stories is set in the...
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Margaret Atwood, Author , illus. Dušan Petricic. Bloomsbury $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59990-004-9
In this alliterative trifle by Atwood, who previously wielded consonants in Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
, two homeless urchins form a fabulous friendship. Bob has been "abandoned... beside a beauty parlour" by his mother, whose...
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Margaret Atwood, Author . House of Anansi $15.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-88784-800-1
Atwood's book is a weird but wonderful mélange of personal reminiscences, literary walkabout, moral preachment, timely political argument, economic history and theological query, all bound together with wry wit and careful though casual-s
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Margaret Atwood, Author Nan A. Talese: Doubleday $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-50385-3
Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. In her latest, the future is even bleaker. The triple whammy of runaway social inequality, genetic technology and catastrophic climate change, has finally ...
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Margaret Atwood, Author Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio $26 (544p) ISBN 978-0-385-47572-3
Family secrets, sibling rivalry, political chicanery and social unrest, promises and betrayals, ""loss and regret and memory and yearning"" are the themes of Atwood's brilliant new novel, whose subtitle might read: The Fall of the House of Chase....
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Margaret Atwood, Author Doubleday $20 (227p) ISBN 978-0-385-42106-5
Set mainly in Toronto or in the Canadian woods, the 10 beautifully controlled tales in Atwood's new collection testify to the unpredictability of life, its missed connections, unsolvable mysteries and the lightning passage of time. Most of them are...
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Margaret Atwood, Author . Doubleday/Talese $26 (434p) ISBN 978-0-385-52877-1
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In her 2002 speculative novel, Oryx and Crake
, Margaret Atwood depicted a dystopic planet tumbling toward apocalypse. The world she envisaged was in the throes of catastrophic climate change, its wealthy...
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Margaret Atwood, Author, Margaret Atwood, Illustrator Nan A. Talese $17.95 (163p) ISBN 978-0-385-47110-7
If Atwood keeps a journal, perhaps some of the brief selections in this slender volume-postmodern fairy tales, caustic fables, inspired parodies, witty monologues-come from that source. The 35 entries offer a sometimes whimsical, sometimes sardonic...
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Margaret Atwood, Author, Maryann Kovalski, Illustrator, Aryann Kovalski, Illustrator Workman Publishing $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7611-0166-6
Canadian literary icon Atwood takes a break from serious fiction and cuts loose with this deliciously silly romp. Preoccupied with her own prettiness, Prunella, a positive pill of a princess, passes her time peering into a pocket mirror to see her...
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Edited by Mark Martin. Verso (Norton, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-84467-744-3
Ten award-winning writers respond to a plea for fiction that addresses the realities of climate change and portray potential future environments. The title references environmentalist John Muir's remark "when it comes to a war between the races, I'm
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Margaret Atwood, Author, Dusan Petricic, Illustrator , illus. by Dusan Petricic. Bloomsbury $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-950-3
Like Atwood's Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
, this silly picture book revels in alliteration and understated humor. The plot is uncomplicated: when Rude Ramsay ventures out of his "ramshackle rectangular residence" to the...
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Margaret Atwood, Author, Susan Denaker, Read by Random House Audio Assets $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4051-6
Denaker's fine, deep voice and varied vocal range works particularly well with Atwood's sardonic humor. But her articulation is so perfect as to be disconcerting, often tossing impediments into Atwood's carefully wrought sentences. The first story...
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Various. Tin House (PGW, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-935639-96-1
Marking the 30th anniversary of the nonprofit Literary Arts in Oregon, this collection of 10 lectures from celebrated writers reanimates the humanistic argument that, far from being a “marginal cultural activity,” the production of serious literary...
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Margaret Atwood, Author, Laural Merlington, Read by Brilliance Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-0777-8
Drawing on a range of sources, in addition to The Odyssey, Atwood scripts the narrative of Penelope, the faithful and devoted wife of Odysseus and her 12 maids, who were killed upon the master's return. Atwood proposes striking interpretations of...
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Margaret Atwood, Author, Michael O'Brien, Read by , dramatized by Michael O'Brien, read by a full cast. BTC Audio Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-86492-401-8
Atwood's Booker Prize–winning novel, with its 1930s setting and stories within stories, is well suited to audio dramatization. O'Brien has simplified and streamlined the structure so that it jumps around in time less and makes clearer...
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Margaret Atwood, Author, Earl G. Ingersoll, Editor Ontario Review Press $16.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-86538-117-9
The title of this collection comes from a statement from its celebrated subject, author and poet Margaret Atwood, on interviewing: ""I don't mind 'being interviewed' any more than I mind Viennese waltzing-that is, my response will depend on the...
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Margaret Atwood. Hogarth, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8041-4129-1
In The Tempest, Prospero is not just exiled king, magician, and father, he’s an impresario staging multiple shows: the storm that strands his enemies on the island; his pretended disdain for Ferdinand, whom he intends for his daughter, Miranda; the...
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Margaret Atwood. Doubleday, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-385547-48-2
Atwood returns to nonfiction (after Moving Targets) with this impressive collection of answers to “some of the burning questions I’ve been asked.” As she writes, “The questions we’ve been faced with so far in the twenty-first century are more than...
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Edited by Hope Nicholson. Dark Horse, $14.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-5067-0099-1
Love, loss, longing, and The Lord of the Rings—what do they all have in common? Quite a bit, argues this anthology of gloriously geeky women. Here, Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last) recalls her early days as a bespectacled comic fan, Marjorie...
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Margaret Atwood, illus. by Dusan Petricic. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $16.95 (52p) ISBN 978-1-55498-933-1
Absurdist alliteration abounds in these three short stories (previously published individually as picture books) that are as imaginative as they are unusual. The title character in “Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes” wants to escape his revolting
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Margaret Atwood and Johnnie Christmas. Dark Horse, $10.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-50670-063-2
Atwood’s (The Handmaid’s Tale; Oryx and Crake) fiction is often complex and challenging to read, but in her first foray into the world of graphic novels, her wickedly funny sensibility as a poet shines through. The tale starts with the...
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Margaret Atwood, read by R.H. Thomson. Random House Audio, unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-7352-8657-3
The fourth book in the Hogarth series of contemporary novels based on Shakespeare’s plays is a delightfully complex and inventive modern recreation of The Tempest, in which the character of Prospero is a prominent theater festival director named...
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Margaret Atwood and Renée Nault. McClelland and Stewart, $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-3855-3924-1
Equal parts gorgeous and horrifying, Nault’s adaptation faithfully follows both the plot and style of Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel. Narrator Offred lives in Gilead, a United States that is both unrecognizable and too familiar: the government strips
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Margaret Atwood. Doubleday/Talese, $28.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-54378-1
Atwood's confident, magnetic sequel to The Handmaid's Tale details the beginning of the end for Gilead, the authoritarian religion-touting dystopia where fertile single women (handmaids) live in sexual servitude. The novel opens in New England 15...
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Margaret Atwood. Ecco, $27.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-303249-1
Atwood (The Testaments) returns with a sardonic and sagacious masterpiece to add to her significant oeuvre. Fantasy, love, sex, feminism, and mortality are explored with discursive poise and narrative cohesion. Atwood has a knack for creating...
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Margaret Atwood. Doubleday, $30 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-54907-3
Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale) explores love and loss in this brilliant collection that mixes fantastical stories about the afterlife with realism. “Metempsychosis: Or, The Journey of the Soul,” an amusing story of reincarnation, follows a narrator...
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Edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston. Harper, $32 (384p) ISBN 978-0-358-61638-2
This beguiling novel of the Covid-19 pandemic was coauthored by 36 members of the Authors Guild, including Atwood, Preston, John Grisham, and Celeste Ng. The loosely connected narrative portrays a group of tenants who regularly convene on the...
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Margaret Atwood and Ken Steacy. Dark Horse, $19.99 (104p) ISBN 978-1-5067-0898-0
Despite a powerhouse creator team, this boisterously drawn tale of a WWII-era Canadian comic artist by Atwood (Handmaid’s Tale) and Steacy (Astro Boy series) falls flat. After landing a job as an illustrator with Canoodle Comics, Alan Zurakowski...
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