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[2023]
Language
English
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"Margaret Atwood has established herself as a beloved cultural icon and one of the most visionary and canonical authors of her generation. In this collection comprised of fifteen extraordinary stories-some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine-Atwood speaks to our times with her characteristic wit and intellect. Of special significance are the seven works revolving around the long-term married couple Tig and Nell....
2) Cat's eye
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Language
English
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Painter Elaine Risley's return to Toronto, the city of her youth, evokes a flood of memories and allows her at long last to reconcile with her past.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a ... collection of nonfiction--funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient--which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? Is science fiction now writing us? So what if beauty...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Cuando la puerta de la furgoneta se cerró sobre el futuro de Offred al final de El cuento de la criada, los lectores no tenían forma de decir lo que le esperaba: libertad, prisión o muerte. Con Los testamentos, la espera ha terminado. La secuela de Margaret Atwood retoma la historia quince años después de que Offred se adentró en lo desconocido, con los explosivos testimonios de las tres narradoras de Galaad.
When the van door slammed on Offred's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Now that Jeanette Winterson, Howard Jacobson, and Anne Tyler have all had a go at contemporizing Shakespeare via the "Hogarth Shakespeare" series, Man Booker Prize winner Atwood takes on The Tempest. Owing to a scheming assistant, Felix has lost his job as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival and finds himself in isolated southern Ontario, teaching Literacy Through Theatre to prisoners at the Burgess Correctional...
11) Furies
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, featuring new and original stories.
13) The robber bride
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Each of the three women has been badly damaged by Zenia. Now Zenia is dead, and the three women have all, with much relief, attended her funeral. Suddenly she's alive again, stalking into the restaurant where they are sharing a decorous lunch. She's back in town, but will her old magic tricks still work?
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In Season Five of the Handmaid's Tale, June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead's influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise to power. June, Lucke, and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society, or too much of a good thing? Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, 'Surviving Progress' is a provocative documentary that explores the concept of progress in the modern world, guiding through the major 'progress traps' facing civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
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