Burning Questions - Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2022 (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)
Výrobce: Vintage
EAN: 9781529114980
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How can we live on our planet? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In Burning Questions Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe. INCLUDES NEW ESSAYS FOR PAPERBACK. Review. This isnt just a collection of essays for Atwood fans. Rather, this is an attempt to make sense of the world, taking in with characteristic verve everything from Anne of Green Gables to Donald Trump, zombies to censorship . . . While the tone skates from surreal off-kilter wit to impassioned gravity, Atwood always makes the idea of big questions a little more digestible . . . The collection is polyphonic, enthusiastic, illuminating -- Sophie Macintosh ― i News. Margaret Atwood was recently described in a Guardian interview as \arguably the most famous living literary novelist in the world\", and she is undoubtedly the mos
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Autor | Margaret Atwood |
Jazyk | Anglicky |
Počet stran | 512 |
Rok vydání | 2023 |
Vazba | brožovaná |
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