EAN: 9780385547512

ATWOOD MARGARET BOOK OF LIVES

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own
life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments  one of
our most lauded and influential cultural figures.    ‘Every writer is at least two beings: the
one who lives  and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their
minds  or mind  they are not the same.’   Raised by ruggedly independent  scientifically minded
parents – entomologist father  dietician mother – Atwood spent most of each year in the wild
forest of northern Quebec. This childhood was unfettered and nomadic  sometimes isolated (on
her eighth birthday: 'It sounds forlorn. It was forlorn. It gets more forlorn.’)  but also
thrilling and beautiful.  From this unconventional start  Atwood unfolds the story of her life
linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape  from the cruel
year that spawned Cat’s Eye to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote The Handmaid’s Tale .
In pages bursting with bohemian gatherings  her magical life with the wildly charismatic writer
Graeme Gibson and major political turning points  we meet poets  bears  Hollywood actors and
larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.  As we travel with her
along the course of her life  more and more is revealed about her writing  the connections
between real life and art – and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.

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