These short fictions and prose poems are beautifully bizarre: bread can no longer be thought of as wholesome comforting loaves; the pretensions of the male chef are subjected to a loght roasting; a poisonous brew is concocted by cynical five year olds; and knowing when to stop is of deadly importance in a game of Murder in the Dark.
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'These vignettes glow with the usual Atwood magic of intelligence ... an exhilarating performance, full of sharp pleasures for the mind' BRITISH BOOK NEWS 'Shrewd, funny, intelligent, honest, ironic' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 'A brilliant and witty writer' COSMOPOLITAN
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and she has won many literary prizes in other countries.
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MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in over thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; and her most recent, Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
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Murders In The Dark leaves me speechless. It's a book that panders to my short attention span-- full of short short stories, commentaries, and other artistic pieces. The best, in my opinion, is "The Page," a work that explains writing to me better than any other work I've come in contact with to date. Atwood has spunk (and a dark side). She's coming to speak at my school next semester (SUNY Albany). I am counting the minutes.
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I love Margaret Atwood's books, this little gem is a distillation of her thughts presented as a series of sketches. It contains some of the best sentences I've ever read. Sharp!!
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- The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Coral Ann Howells on 12 pages
- Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism by Patricia Merivale on 4 pages
- Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers) by Nathalie Cooke on page 11, page 17, and page 114
- Studying Literature: The Essential Companion by Paul Goring on page 177, and Back Matter
- The Penelopiad (Canongate Myths) by Margaret Atwood in Front Matter
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