Writing With Intent Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005
1st Carroll & Graf Edition
Hardback (18 Mar 2005)
Not available for sale
Includes delivery to the United States
Out of stock
Other formats/editions
Check stock
From one of the world's most passionately engaged literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces written for great works of literature, this is the award-winning author's first book-length nonfiction publication in twenty years. Arranged chronologically, these writings display the development of Atwood's worldview as the world around her changes. Included are the Booker Prizewinning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as essays in which she remembers herself reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and discusses the influence of George Orwell's 1984 on the writing of The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller can be found here, as well as a look back on a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her "Letter to America," written after September 11, 2001. The insightful and memorable pieces in this book serve as a testament to Atwood's career, reminding readers why she is one of the most esteemed writers of our time.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780786715350 |
Publisher: | Basic Books |
Imprint: | Basic Books |
Pub date: | 18 Mar 2005 |
Edition: | 1st Carroll & Graf Edition |
DEWEY: | 818.5409 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 464 |
Weight: | 730g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 153mm |
Spine width: | 37mm |