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26%OFFMargaret Atwood - In Other Worlds - 9781844087556 - V9781844087556
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In Other Worlds

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Description for In Other Worlds Paperback. Margaret Atwood's fascinating account of her lifelong relationship with science and speculative fiction. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: 'Flying Rabbits' begins with her early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; 'Burning Bushes' travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and 'Dire Cartographies' investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood's own ventures into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844087556
SKU
V9781844087556
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Ref
99-50

About Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes. She lives in Canada.

Reviews for In Other Worlds
Eminently readable and accessible ... The lectures are insightful and cogently argued with a neat comic turn of phrase ... Her enthusiasm and level of intellectual engagement are second to none
James Lovegrove Financial Times

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