Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

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Writing with intent

essays, reviews, personal prose: 1983-2005
2005
Presents a collection of autobiographical essays, cultural commentaries, book reviews, and personal prose by twentieth-century author Margaret Atwood including her "Letter to America" written after September 11, 2001.

The handmaid's tale

1987
Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order whose function is to breed.

For the birds

1990

Negotiating with the dead

a writer on writing
2002
Reflecting on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain their activities.

The tent

2006
A collection of illustrated fictional essays by Margaret Atwood that explore a wide range of subjects, including youth, history, Shakespeare, and orphanhood.

The Penelopiad

2005
A twist on Homer's "Odyssey" from the points of view of Penelope, who describes her life before she married Odysseus and chronicles her experiences during and after his protracted return from the Trojan War, and her twelve maids whom Odysseus executes upon his return.

Wilderness tips

1998
Tales that illuminate a single instant that shapes a whole life.

The blind assassin

2001
A story within a story in which the memoir of World War II era button heiress Iris Chase alternates with a science fiction romance about a blind killer who falls in love with a mute virgin.

Moral disorder

stories
2006
A collection of eleven interconnected stories that follows sixty years of the lives and loves of the women of a Canadian family.

Rude Ramsay and the roaring radishes

2004
In this story told mainly with words that begin with the letter "r," Rude Ramsay goes on an adventure with his friend Ralph the red-nosed rat.

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