"With a new preface by the author"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"From the author of the Governor General´s Award winner Shadow Maker and the Hilary Weston Writers´ Trust Prize winner Stalin´s Daughter More than thirty years after the publication of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, internationally acclaimed and bestselling author, continues to be a household name. Now, the TV adaptation of the novel has turned her handmaids into symbols around the globe. But who is Margaret Atwood? Rosemary Sullivan, award-winning biographer and poet, has penned the first portrait of Canada's most famous novelist, a woman who helped to shatter the paradigm of the artist as exclusively male. In Margaret Atwood: Starting Out, Rosemary Sullivan explores the trajectory of a remarkable writer's career. She focuses on Atwood's formative years through to the late 1970s, when the central elements of Atwood's life--the publication of Surfacing, Power Politics, and The Edible Woman; her relationship with writer Graeme Gibson; the birth of her daughter; and her focus on Canadian culture--are set in place. A stunning blend of narrative and meditation, of discovery and insight, Margaret Atwood: Starting Out is a groundbreaking biography of one of Canada's most provocative and visionary writers."-- Amazon.
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