Margaret Atwood
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it...
10) Cat's Eye
Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, 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...
12) The Robber Bride
Roz, Charis, and Tony—university classmates...
The long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human...
14) The tent
“Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter...
“A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable...
18) Bluebeard's Egg
With the publication of the best-selling The Handmaid's Tale in 1986, Margaret Atwood's place in North American letters was reconfirmed. Poet, short story writer, and novelist, she was acclaimed "one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century."*
With Bluebeard's Egg, her second short story collection, Atwood covers a dramatic range of storytelling, her scope encompassing
...Available in a new edition and with an introduction by Margaret Atwood, Payback delivers a surprising look at the topic of "debt" — a subject that continues to be timely.
Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of "debt" — a subject that continues to be timely during this current period of economic upheaval. In her intelligent and imaginative approach
...