The author writes of the imaginative mystique of the Canadian North. In discussing the work of writers like Robert Service, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence, she talks of northern folklore, myth, and imagery. Originally presented as the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University.
A collection of short stories, including parodies of fairy tales and fables, a tale which encapsulates the divide between men and women, and an account of the remarkably thuggish population of a small, out-of-the-way island. Atwood dissects our habit of seeing the world in terms of "we" and "them," and our refusal to face the facts of environmental degradation.
A collection of fifty poems, ranging in subject from the personal to the political. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality.
Author and poet Atwood looks at debt, which she describes as air - something we take for granted until things go wrong, and then, while gasping for breath, become very interested in. While not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.
The author writes of the imaginative mystique of the Canadian North. In discussing the work of writers like Robert Service, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence, she talks of northern folklore, myth, and imagery. Originally presented as the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University.
A collection of short stories, including parodies of fairy tales and fables, a tale which encapsulates the divide between men and women, and an account of the remarkably thuggish population of a small, out-of-the-way island. Atwood dissects our habit of seeing the world in terms of "we" and "them," and our refusal to face the facts of environmental degradation.
A collection of fifty poems, ranging in subject from the personal to the political. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality.
Author and poet Atwood looks at debt, which she describes as air - something we take for granted until things go wrong, and then, while gasping for breath, become very interested in. While not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.
