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Article: Margaret Atwood: Works & Impact.
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. 344 pp. $65.00.
Written for the occasion of Margaret Atwood's sixtieth birthday in November of 1999, Reingard M. Nischik's Margaret Atwood: Works & Impact is a surprisingly disappointing collection of reflections on Atwood and her work. Although Nischik has assembled an impressive international list of contributors, too many of the essays merely restate the most basic elements of Atwood's considerable oeuvre. That so few of the essays in Nischik's collection, which also contains photographs, an interview, personal reflections from Atwood's business associates, and a selection of Atwood's brilliant comics, illuminate Atwood's ...