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Sundance: Margaret Atwood learns to let go

Montreal Gazette - Jan 24, 2012
PARK CITY, Utah — "You may not know this, but I don't consider myself a movie star," says Margaret Atwood, wearing her wry, trademark smile, a bright red scarf and her Sundance Film Festival accreditation. She is also fully-clothed, ...

Margaret Atwood: She tweets! She talks!

Houston Chronicle (blog) - Jan 20, 2012
*Margaret Atwood will discuss her works, 7:30 pm Monday (Jan. 23), Wortham Center, Cullen Theater, 501 Texas Ave. The Inprint event is sold out. Margaret Atwood keeps tweeting while I'm talking. We're on the phone. I'm scrambling to frame a fancy ...

Payback: Sundance Film Review

Hollywood Reporter - Jan 26, 2012
Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal puts a big-screen spin on Margaret Atwood's book of essays about systems of wealth, justice and reparation. PARK CITY – A philosophical static-cinematic on the nature of indebtedness, namely how a wrong that can not be ...

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The Handmaid's Tale

by: Margaret Atwood
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable..
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Oryx and Crake

by: Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride.
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Alias Grace: A Novel

by: Margaret Atwood
In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century.

Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane.
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Cat's Eye

by: Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, .
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