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.
如果没记错,艾丽丝和劳拉都是金发碧眼,Blonde,这是个刺眼的字母,胸也是B,亚历克斯的故事里的姑娘也是个金发的B。我也记得blonde在英文里的言外之义,“你的头发金黄金黄的,太惹眼了。金发女郎就像是小白鼠;小白鼠只能关在笼子里。它们在自然界的生命不长。它们太引人注...
评分很久以前的东西,翻出来一下。 《盲刺客》[加拿大]玛•阿特伍德 著 韩忠华 译 上海译文出版社 THE BLIND ASSASSIN MARGARET ATWOOD Virago Press 第一章 桥 P3, 第一段 大战结束后的第十天,我妹妹劳拉开车坠下了桥。这座桥正在进行维修:她的汽车径直闯过了桥上的“...
评分不知道为什么,看完一本跟自己有点特殊缘分的书总是觉得要写下点什么才算是完结。其实这个有缘,也没有看上去那么玄乎,它大致可以解释为我喜欢的,或者是认识很久,一直打算要看,可是却因为种种原因一直没看的书。或许还有一种是我们遇见的方式比较特别。总之,《盲刺客》就...
评分阅读盲刺客不仅仅需要充分的智力,旺盛的体力(长达624页), 还要有一颗能体察同情女性的心。不幸的是,尽管我勉强达到了前两个要求却在最后一环上有所缺失。这样半个月折腾下来,我完成的只能是一次失败的阅读。 谈到女性作家大多会套用细腻温柔之类的形容词,却似乎很...
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...
评分the brightest spot of the novel is its bleak tone.
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评分完全在看英文了。。。没入情节
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