Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Associations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Ms. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International.
The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin , it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.
很多年以前读到关于《狂恋大提琴》的评论时,只觉得那是不忍卒读的文字。心下还猜想:或者,这是安妮宝贝刻意为之的妖异?及到真将那一张DVD推入笔记本,在一个夏夜的两小时之后,才发现电影本身比那一篇评论要厚重许多,更残酷太多。 妹妹赤裸着身体在树林里遍体鳞伤,哭泣...
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评分这是一部前紧后松、前好后差的小说,让人感觉一头沉。 首先是结构,本书的结构是否能算得上精巧?我看不能,因为它并不完整。如果说,小说开头是依靠双女主视角、现在和过去的变换、现实和虚构的关联来构成所谓嵌套结构的话,那么结尾的反转是不是有意打破了这种结构?比如,在...
评分我和亲爱的同事欧儿小姐窝在大图检室里,边工作边阿特伍德。 她手里的是《可以吃的女人》,我手里的是《盲刺客》。 她是个习惯一个字一个字啃书的细心女人,我是个修炼一目十行能力的抽象男人,我们在这次阅读中找到了共同点,那就是在哗哗的翻页声中大声的叹气。 这老太太太...
评分《盲刺客》是加拿大作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德的小说。这部小说获得了多个文学奖,包括2000年的布克奖,并被《时代》杂志评为2000年最佳小说和100部最伟大小说之一。 小说讲了菜斯家族两个女儿,姐姐艾瑞丝和妹妹劳拉的一生,跨度近一个世纪。菜斯家族兴起于艾瑞丝的...
读到最后20页 全部都变了 也许我在前面会有想之间的联系 但我刻意不去想而只看故事本身 果然最后的冲击对我来说很大 让我对所有之前人物命运的恼怒都挥之而去 剩下的只是叹息 我好蠢啊 还没读完就去跟人讨论对这书的看法 这本书改变了我对加拿大人的看法了 真的是国宝级的作家..
评分算是她的小说中读得最顺畅的一本,借着上下班坐班车的时间看了好几个月,阅读速度也是堪忧
评分翻过来看第二遍的时候才发现,各种隐线在书中书的开头早已布下,真是设计精妙
评分"The picture is of happiness, the story not. Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road."
评分其实真相已经猜得差不多,可是没有猜到iris跟alex james... 读到最后就剩下伤感...
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