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Title: Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood ISBN: 0521662605 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.85
Rating: 4
Summary: Part of a Great Tradition
Comment: You have to wonder if most of the previous reviewers of this book have actually read any of Atwood's fiction. If they had, they would have known the kinds of topics that interest her and that she might pursue in lectures about her career as a writer. It's hard to imagine, for example, criticizing Atwood for drawing references from 19th century literature. I see this book as following in the tradition of Virginia Woolf and Eudora Welty, by combining stories about the author's life as a woman with her reflections on what it has meant to write fiction of the highest order.
Rating: 4
Summary: Margaret Laurence, NOT Margaret Atwood...
Comment: I feel the need to respond to reader "Liz," who believes that the author's "alcholism" [sic] was to blame for her disappointment in this book. Liz clearly confuses Margaret Atwood for Margaret LAURENCE, the brilliant and troubled Canadian writer who committed suicide in 1983. Atwood is alive, well, and (according to all reliable reports) in no way suffering from "alcholism." I would respectfully suggest that a little more scholarship and considerably less judgmental commentary (not to mention careful proofreading) are in order before posting reviews on Amazon.com.
As a longtime fan of Atwood's work and as a writer myself, I found her insight fascinating, though I can understand the disappointment some readers felt; this is not a handbook or a how-to, it's an intellectual memoir and will consequently be a let-down for many. But if you are curious about analysis and process more than in absolutes, there is much here to interest and entertain. Atwood-the-writer can seem remote in her fiction; here she is personable and humane. Anyone who has put pen to paper will recognize and value much that is to be found in this volume.
Rating: 5
Summary: Successfully inhaled more Atwood prose
Comment: I have collected M.E. Atwood books for years now, and it was by accident that I came across Negotiating with the Dead in the academic section of my university's bookstore. Sure, it's not a novel or book of poems, but if it has her name on it, I buy it. I wasn't dissapointed. I love MEA's characters and stories, and now I love her take on literary aspirations and operations. Her refreshing, cynical angle on this field was inspiring and very interesting. Buy this book if you love Atwood, but also if you love writing and don't know why you do.
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Title: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood ISBN: 0385503857 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Dancing Girls: And Other Stories by Margaret Eleanor Atwood ISBN: 0385491093 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood ISBN: 0385490445 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Edible Woman by Margaret Eleanor Atwood ISBN: 0385491069 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers by Carolyn See ISBN: 067946316X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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