Item #2329596 Conversations (Ontario Review Press Critical Series). Margaret Atwood, Earl G. Ingersoll.

Conversations (Ontario Review Press Critical Series)

Princeton, New Jersey: Ontario Review Press, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #2329596
ISBN: 0865380708

First edition. A fine copy in a near fine jacket.

xvii, 251 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Chronology; Dissecting the Way a Writer Works; Magical Forms in Poetry; Preserving Mythologies; Thinking about the Technique of Skiing When You're Halfway Down the Hill; A Question of Metamorphosis; Playing Around; My Mother Would Rather Skate Than Scrub Floors; Dancing on the Edge of the Precipice; Where Were You When I Really Needed You; Defying Distinctions; Articulating the Mute; Just Looking at Things That Are There; Evading the Pigeonholders; Using What You're Given; More Room for Play; Witness Is What You Must Bear; Managing Time for Writing; The Empress Has No Clothes; Tightrope_Walking Over Niagara Falls; Using Other People's Dreadful Childhoods; Waltzing Again; Contributor Notes; Index. This gathering of 21 interviews with Margaret Atwood covers a broad spectrum of topics. Beginning with Graeme Gibson's "Dissecting the Way a Writer Works" (1972), the conversations provide a forum for Atwood to talk about her own work, her career as a writer, feminism, and Canadian cultural nationalism, and to refute the autobiographical fallacy. These conversations offer what Earl Ingersoll calls "a kind of 'biography' of Margaret Atwood—the only kind of biography she is likely to sanction." Enlivened by Atwood's unfailing sense of humor, the interviews present an invaluable view of a distinguished contemporary writer at work.

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