- Imprint: Vintage
- ISBN: 9781529967166
- Length: 624 pages
- Price: £12.99
Blake Morrison, GuardianWhere most such backward looks are cosily triumphalist or anxiously self-justifying, hers is sharp, funny and engaging... nerdy brainiac, waifish poet, Medusa-eyed feminist, uncanny prophet and one of the great novelists of our time
Erica Wagner, ObserverDisplays the wit, intelligence and complexity that marks her best work... fat and satisfying... these glimpses of the mechanism? are fascinating
Nilanjana Roy, Financial TimesJust in time for Christmas, Atwood presents her readers with another outsize gift: a big fat juicy memoir, as compulsively readable as her best fiction... One of the most deliciously engaging memoirs of the decade, this brims over with life, wit and flashes of prophecy
India Block, Evening StandardFiercely funny tales from a literary mafia don... as pacy and fascinating as any of her books... she is hilarious, with a poet's eye for detail and endless short, tart punchlines
Times Literary SupplementThe Atwood on display here, as incisive as ever…is more emotive, her wit riper and more forgiving, as though she were recounting her life to old friends
Francesca Steels, iNewsImmensely readable... Atwood’s anecdotes and musings are so entertaining, and the fabric of her life, the foundations of her evidently resourceful, hard-working and fiercely funny character so interesting... it never particularly feels like the life of a famous person... The real Margaret Atwood is sentimental, blunt and deliciously naughty
ObserverBook of Lives, displays the wit, intelligence and complexity that marks her [Atwood’s] best work
Martin Chilton, IndependentA book with understated voltage
LA TimesA remarkable read... successfully puts time in a bottle
iBook of Lives [is] immensely readable… Atwood’s anecdotes and musings are so entertaining, and the fabric of her life, the foundations of her evidently resourceful, hard-working and fiercely funny character so interesting, that this book is never plodding
About Margaret Atwood
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; and Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories.
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.
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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