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Article: Style distinguishes Margaret Atwood's words on writing
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- October 13, 2002
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Style distinguishes Margaret Atwood's words on writing
NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEAD: A WRITER ON WRITING. By Margaret Atwood
(Cambridge University Press, $18)
Margaret Atwood is the leading Canadian author and one of the most
eminent women writing in English. Neither category meant as much
before she inhabited it.
Atwood became famous in 1985 withThe Handmaid's Tale, her vision
of a dystopian future in which women are chattel. She became a writer
in 1956, when, crossing a football field on her way home from school:
"I wrote a poem in my head and then I wrote it down, and after that
writing was the only thing I wanted to do."
Negotiating With the Dead, a transcription of six public lectures
that ...