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Margaret Atwood (Author)
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction,
poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The
Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam
trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the
bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the
Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment
of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4
TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and
was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award
for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime
Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of
the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also
worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and
puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist
*Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER*
Compulsively readable
*Daily Telegraph*
Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions,
brilliant intense images and sardonic wit
*Independent*
The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science
fiction and a profoundly felt moral story
*Angela Carter*
Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic
*The Listener*
The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking
aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is
chilling
*Sunday Times*
Powerful...admirable
*Time Out*
It's hard to believe it is 25 years since it was first published,
but its freshness, its anger and its disciplined, taut prose have
grown more admirable in the intervening years... Atwood's novel was
an ingenious enterprise that showed, with out hysteria, the real
dangers to women of closing their eyes to patriarchal
oppression
*Independent on Sunday*
Turned 25 this year and...worth re-reading. As you grow, such books
grow with you
*The Times, Christmas round up*
Fiercely political and bleak, yet witting and wise...this novel
seems ever more vital in the present day
*Observer*
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