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...
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...
评分看了玛.阿特伍德的《盲刺客》,我觉得看完这个真的是一件十分值得纪念的事情。毕竟某人长这么大以来,完整看完的两部外国长篇小说除了《蝴蝶梦》就是这个了…… 我记得我看《怪物》的时候,因为很喜欢这部漫画于是曾想过要把里面的人物都给写一篇文章,当然这计划最后在某人...
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
评分这大概是我读过的结构最复杂的小说。也是因为这个结构,所以最核心的谜团一直保留到结尾才揭晓。Atwood在各个时间点和视角转换点间的切换十分平顺,所以才能撑得起这么复杂的结构。
评分4.5 stars
评分Atwood is a bit too refined, but still good sad intimate story.
评分结构层层叠叠,语言优美,看看停停老梳理不清楚,结果半个学期才看完
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