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Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful
instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to
call me up and make me an offer I can''t refuse. So in some ways
this book is simply the result of an under-developed ability to say
no.'' Collected and published in the UK for the first time, here are
essays and journalism from the brilliant novelist and poet. Ranging
from book reviews of John Updike and Toni Morrison to an
appreciation of Dashiell Hammet; an account of a journey in
Afghanistan that sowed the seeds of The Handmaid''s Tale; passionate
ecological writings; funny stories of ''my most embarrassing
moments''; obituaries of some of her great friends and fellow
writers: Angela Carter, Mordecai Richler, Carol Shields. This is an
insightful, thoughtful and revealing record of the life and times
and writings of Margaret Atwood from 1970 to the present.
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of
fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid''s Tale, Cat''s
Eye, Alias Grace and Oryx and Crake have all been shortlisted for
the Booker Prize. The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize.
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