Margaret Atwood
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new collection of essays from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Short Description / Web 'About this Book' From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant 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...
24) The Penelopiad
Author
Series
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumors circulating about her. I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids....
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents a collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire.
28) Cat's eye
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"The Handmaid's Tale es la historia de la vida en la distop̕a de Galaad. Enfrentando desastres ambientales y una tasa de natalidad en picada, Gilead est̀ regido por fundamentalistas que usan la opresi̤n militarizada para "volver a los valores tradicionales". Como una de las pocas mujeres f̌rtiles que quedan, Offred se ve obligada a la servidumbre sexual."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In these stories, Ramsay runs away from relatives, Bob is raised by dogs and Dorinda does housework for distant relatives, and Wenda and her woodchuck companion need to find a way to outsmart Widow Wallop.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A series of the author's essays explores essential truths about the modern world and the her personal relationship with the science-fiction genre, in a volume that is complemented by key reviews and three unpublished Ellmann Lectures.
37) Los testamentos
Author
Publisher
Narrativa Salamandra
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
En esta brillante secuela de The Maid's Tale, la aclamada autora Margaret Atwood responde las preguntas que han cautivado a los lectores durante décadas. Subo y penetro en la oscuridad del interior; o luz Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe después de Offred al final de The Maid's Tale, los lectores no tenían forma de saber cuál sería su futuro: libertad, prisión o muerte. Con la publicación de Los Testamentos, la espera...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply,...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The cat-centric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel. Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula to seek allies as the war between cats and rats escalates.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It's all-out war in the madcap conclusion to Angel Catbird's superhero saga! The evil rat army is aiming for world domination, and only a ragtag gang of half-cats stands in their way. Internationally best-selling novelist and animal lover Margaret Atwood pens the conclusion to the dramatic, hilarious, and heartwarming trillogy." -- cover page 4.