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.
那是一个慵懒而疲惫的周末上午,我躺在床上把它翻到最后一页。一个字一个字念出来,直到自己哽咽不能。我承认自己有借题发挥的嫌疑,眼泪不过凭借任何借口跑出来而已。但那种心情——一直到最后,你把密码留给风,还是等不到你所希冀的人来眷顾。在这一点上,不是你不想,而是...
评分主人公“我”在垂暮之年记录下自己的一生,以及那本以Laura 的名义出版的名叫《盲刺客》的小说,这本小说讲述了“他”和“她”幽会的故事,而盲刺客和哑女的故事是在幽会期间“他”讲给“她”的。 现实中的“我”为了父亲挽救父亲的工厂嫁给了中年企业家Richard(可以穿插报纸...
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《盲刺客》是加拿大作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德的小说。这部小说获得了多个文学奖,包括2000年的布克奖,并被《时代》杂志评为2000年最佳小说和100部最伟大小说之一。 小说讲了菜斯家族两个女儿,姐姐艾瑞丝和妹妹劳拉的一生,跨度近一个世纪。菜斯家族兴起于艾瑞丝的...
评分booker的这个奖很有趣,很英国,当诺贝尔越来越奥斯卡化的时候,它还保持着纯朴的疯癫精神。通过收集近些年的booker奖作品之后,发现这是个旨在奖励有趣但是无聊小说的奖项,类似中国的故事会吧。情节有趣,意义无聊或者根本就没意义。盲刺客是2000年的获奖作品,时年作者已六...
终于憋啊憋啊看完了
评分好久没有读一本书读到哭...真是achingly beautiful。
评分六百多页,终于看完了,本是为了反转和书中书而来,但后来发现在那哀婉到无以复加,却又美到萦绕不去的文字面前,一切都不重要。那到一半就已猜到的真相,并不是最悲伤的,真正的悲哀是你合上书,意识到近一个世纪前的两姐妹的命运,那种残酷的压迫和碾压,那种近乎绝望的无力感,依然每天上演,从未休止。
评分完全在看英文了。。。没入情节
评分算是她的小说中读得最顺畅的一本,借着上下班坐班车的时间看了好几个月,阅读速度也是堪忧
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