Margaret Atwood On Memory, Writing And Becoming
Margaret Atwood looks back on her unconventional childhood in northern Quebec and the people, places and politics that shaped her writing life. Linking lived experience to books such as Cat’s Eye and The Handmaid’s Tale, this memoir is intimate, thoughtful and deeply revealing.
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Margaret Atwood On Memory, Writing And Becoming
Margaret Atwood looks back on her unconventional childhood in northern Quebec and the people, places and politics that shaped her writing life. Linking lived experience to books such as Cat’s Eye and The Handmaid’s Tale, this memoir is intimate, thoughtful and deeply revealing.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Love literary memoirs and writerly lives
- Enjoy seeing how real experience feeds directly into great books
- Are interested in the places, politics and relationships behind Atwood’s work
- Want a reflective, richly textured read full of ideas and memory
Immerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood for a riot of life, art and everything in between: the greatest writer of our time tells her own story
Raised by scientifically minded parents, Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. It was an unfettered and nomadic childhood, sometimes isolated but also thrilling and beautiful.
From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel school year that would become Cat's Eye to the unease of 1980s Berlin, where she began The Handmaid's Tale.
In pages alive with the natural world, reading and books, major political turning points and her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.
As she explores her past, Atwood reveals more and more about her writing, the connections between real life and art - and the workings of one of our boldest imaginations.
'she's taken our times and made us wise to them' ALI SMITH
'she's Margaret Atwood and she can do anything' ANN PATCHETT
'she saw it all coming' TIME
'The outstanding novelist of our age' SUNDAY TIMES
** THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR ALL THE MARGARET ATWOOD FANS IN YOUR LIFE **
- About The 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 was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat; Burning Questions, a selection of essays; Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories; and Book of Lives, her memoir. Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and 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, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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- ISBN
- 9781784744496
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, (04 November 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 624
- Weight
- 879 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 242 x 163 x 41 mm
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