Writing with intent : essays, reviews, personal prose, 1983-2005

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Writing with intent : essays, reviews, personal prose, 1983-2005 / Margaret Atwood.

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- (Author). Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Moving targets. (Added Author).

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"From one of our most passionately engaged global literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection ever assembled of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, spanning 1983-2005. The fifty-eight essays compiled here are written in a bracing voice that is provocative, witty, often colloquial, and always accessible. Comprised of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book and film reviews, eulogies, introductions written for great works of literature, and literary excursions that explore the writing of several of her own novels, this is Atwood's first essay collection in more than two decades, showing that whether writing fiction or nonfiction, she is one of the most probing thinkers in the world of letters today." "Compiled here are the Booker Prize-winning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Elmore Leonard, Angela Carter, Beryl Bainbridge, Dashiell Hammett, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Alice McDermott, as well as essays in which she recalls reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and a piece that examines the influence of George Orwell's work on The Handmaid's Tale. Here is Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller in 2004, a look back at a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her "Letter to America," written after September 11, 2001"--Jacket.

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ISBN: 0786715359
ISBN: 9780786715350
ISBN: 9780786717675
ISBN: 078671767X
Physical Description: xvii, 427 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; 2005.

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General Note:: "A different collection containing some of the essays in this book has been published under the title Moving targets in Canada by House of Anansi Press"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-405) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 1983-1989 -- 1990-1999 -- 2000-2005.

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