Category: | Book |
By (author): | Atwood, Margaret |
Subject: | FICTION / Canadian |
FICTION / General | |
Awards: | Trillium Book Award (2010) Short-listed Scotiabank Giller Prize (2009) 07 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2011) 07 |
Publisher: | Knopf Canada |
Published: | July 2010 |
Format: | Book-paperback |
Pages: | 448 |
Size: | 8.00in x 5.20in |
From The Publisher* | From the Booker Prize–winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid's Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice |
Review Quote* | #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR CBC CANADA READS LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A Globe and Mail Best Book A New York Times Notable Book "A gripping and visceral book that showcases Atwood's pure storytelling talents." The New York Times "A heart-pounding thriller." The Washington Post "Atwood is funny and clever. [She] knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect.... The Year of the Flood isn't prophecy, but it is eerily possible." The New York Times Book Review "A gripping read, revealing Atwood in her most masterful storytelling mode.... The book is a cracked mirror of the times we live in." The Gazette |
Biographical Note | Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children's literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1969), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. A book of short stories called Stone Mattress: Nine Tales was published in 2014. Her novel, MaddAddam (2013), is the final volume in a three-book series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short fiction) both appeared in 2006. A volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, a collection of non-fiction essays appeared in 2011. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was adapted for the screen in 2012. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. |