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 Libri di Margaret Atwood su Unilibro.it)
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2008 |
 
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From Eve to Dawn, a History of WomenAuthor: French Marilyn, Atwood Margaret Eleanor (FRW) Publisher: Feminist Pr Analyzing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their own culture? Marilyn French’s The Women’s Room crystallized the issues that ignited the women’s movement and was translated into twenty languages. She received her PhD from Harvard and taught English at Hofstra University, Harvard University, and Holy Cross College. Internationally acclaimed author and critic Margaret Atwood is the author of numerous works of fiction, including The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin. € 19,40
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Moral DisorderAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Anchor Books Margaret Atwood's latest brilliant collection of short stories follows the life of a single character, seen as a girl growing up the 1930s, a young woman in the 50s and 60s, and, in the present day, half of a couple, no longer young, reflecting on the new state of the world. Each story focuses on the ways relationships transform a character's life: a woman's complex love for a married man, the grief upon the death of parents and the joy with the birth of children, the realization of what growing old with someone you love really means. By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood's celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. € 14,30
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L'altra GraceAuthor: Atwood Margaret Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Nel 1843 il Canada è sconvolto da un atroce fatto di cronaca nera: l'omicidio del ricco possidente Thomas Kinnear e della sua amante, la governante Nancy Montgomery. Imputata insieme a un altro servo, la sedicenne Grace Marks viene spedita in carcere e, sospettata di insanità mentale, in manicomio. A lungo oggetto dei giudizi contrastanti dell'opinione pubblica - propensa a vedere in lei ora una santa, ora una carnefice -la protagonista di questo romanzo può finalmente raccontare la propria vita al giovane dottore Simon Jordan. Convinto di mettere le proprie conoscenze al servizio della verità sul caso, e al tempo stesso contribuire al progresso della scienza psicologica, Jordan non potrà fare a meno di restare ammaliato da questa personalità complessa e inafferrabile. Il dialogo che si instaura tra i due si trasforma nel ritratto psicologico di una persona due volte vittima del sistema sociale - in quanto povera e in quanto donna - e assurge a denuncia delle enormi contraddizioni di una società maschilista e tormentata da conflitti interni perché incapace di accettare l''altro'. € 20,00
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PaybackAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Renouf Pub Co Ltd Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt, exploring debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. € 18,30
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2007 |
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The DoorAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The Door, Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since her award-winning Morning in the Burned House, is a magnificent achievement. These fifty lucid, urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political, viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. Brave and compassionate, The Door interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on, and reminds us once again of Margaret Atwood's unique accomplishments as one of the finest and most celebrated writers of our time. € 18,10
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Moral DisorderAuthor: Margaret Atwood Publisher: VIRAGO A collection of 11 stories which resemble a photo album - a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life and of the other lives intertwined with it - from the incomparable Margaret Atwood. 'An infinitely ingenious and perc € 11,70
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The PenelopiadAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: FABER & FABER € 14,30
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The TentAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Anchor Books A delightfully pointed m?lange of fictional pieces from one of the world's most acclaimed and incisive authors, The Tent is a sparkling addition to Margaret Atwood's always masterful work.Here Atwood pushes form once again, with meditations on warlords, pet heaven, and aging homemakers. She gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. Accompanied by her own playful illustrations, Atwood's droll humor and keen insight make each piece full of clarity and grace. Prescient and personal, delectable and tart, The Tent reflects one of our wittiest authors at her best. € 12,50
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Mattino nella casa bruciata. Testo inglese a fronteAuthor: Atwood Margaret; Sensi G. (cur.); Sirotti A. (cur.) Publisher: Le Lettere Morning in the Burned House è una raccolta di poesie di Margaret Atwood uscita nel 1995 e definita da molti l'opera poetica più completa, versatile e matura dell'autrice canadese. Le poesie, che variano nei toni e nelle forme dal monologo drammatico, all'elegia lirica, alla riflessione filosofico-esistenziale, affrontano vari aspetti e momenti dell'esperienza di vita di una donna e di un'artista che è sempre stata un importante punto di riferimento per generazioni di altre donne e artiste, un vero portavoce e caposcuola per la letteratura canadese e post-coloniale in genere. La voce della Atwood è sempre al servizio di un'ampia e incisiva esplorazione dell'umanità e attinge alla scienza, alla storia, al mito, attraverso la metafora unificante della combustione (rogo - pira sacrificale - incendio) che vuole essere allo stesso tempo immagine di distruzione e di rinnovamento. Non manca neppure l'ottica femminile e femminista che porta a smascherare con ironia le contraddizioni e le prevaricazioni maschili, ma la vena satirica è bilanciata e resa più autorevole da una saggezza che deriva dalla profonda conoscenza delle vicende umane, dal senso della perdita e dell'abbandono, dalla sottesa e ineludibile consapevolezza della mortalità. Liriche che abitano un paesaggio contemporaneo imbevuto di immagini e archetipi del passato: una poesia sempre in cerca di un paradigma della contemporaneità in bilico tra memoria e realtà, tra capacità di emendare e forza del perdono. € 16,80
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Disordine moraleAuthor: Atwood Margaret Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Undici racconti: un album di fotografie, sessant'anni di una famiglia canadese, quasi un romanzo. Per ogni racconto, un momento preciso nella vita della protagonista, una serie di istantanee limpide che disegnano il corso di una vita e delle vite che con essa si intrecciano: quelle di genitori, parenti, figli, amici e nemici, bambini, animali, professori. Il tempo passa, dagli anni Trenta arriviamo fino ai giorni nostri, e anche gli scenari cambiano: grandi città, periferie, fattorie, foreste. Un mosaico memorabile di sofferenza tra le mura domestiche, costruito sul ricordo e sulla sua capacità di nascondersi o di emergere, di persistere in un apparente disordine che, se abbiamo la pazienza di esaminare, rivelerà quella struttura complessa che rende unico e irripetibile ogni percorso di vita. € 15,00
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2006 |
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The Handmaid's TaleAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor, Martin Valerie (INT) Publisher: Everymans Library (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules. Like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant. € 23,20
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Carried AwayAuthor: Munro Alice, Atwood Margaret Eleanor (INT) Publisher: Everymans Library (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway. Here are such favorites as “Royal Beatings” in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; “Friend of My Youth” in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and “The Love of a Good Woman,” in which, when an old crime resurfaces, a woman has to choose whether to believe in the man she intends to marry. Munro's incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn't know change her life forever, Munro's unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold. € 23,20
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The PenelopiadAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Trafalgar Square Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, ?I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of the Odyssey: What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? The story as told in the Odyssey doesn't hold water: there are too many inconsistencies. I've always been haunted by the hanged maids and, in The Penelopiad, so is Penelope herself.” One of the high points of literary fiction in 2005, this critically acclaimed story found a vast audience and is finally available in paperback. € 9,80
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Handmaid's TaleAuthor: Margaret Atwood Publisher: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY Atwood's futuristic novel, now in an Everyman Classic edition. € 15,40
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Writing With IntentAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Perseus Books Group From one of the world's most passionately engaged and acclaimed literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces to great works of literature, this is the award-winning author's first book-length nonfiction publication in twenty years. Arranged chronologically, these writings display the development of Atwood's worldview as the world around her changes. Included are the Booker Prize?winning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as essays in which she remembers herself reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and discusses the influence of George Orwell's 1984 on the writing of The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller can be found here, as well as a look back on a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her ?Letter to America,” written after September 11, 2001. The insightful and memorable pieces in this book serve as a testament to Atwood's career, reminding readers why she is one of the most esteemed writers of our time. € 20,50
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Rude Ramsay and the Roaring RadishesAuthor: Margaret Atwood Publisher: Bloomsbury children's books An inventive picture book about the virtues of resisting restrictions. Includes a free CD. Ages: 0-5yrs. € 8,70
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PenelopiadAuthor: Margaret Atwood Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS Dazzling retelling of the old myth of Penelope, daughter of King Icarius of Sparta and the cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy. Atwood is the bestselling author of }Oryx & Crake, The Blind Assassin{, and }The Handmaid's Tale{. € 10,50
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Up in the TreeAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Groundwood Books Two children rejoice in their home up in a tree, free from parental guidance and earthbound concerns. But when beavers gnaw their ladder into matchsticks, the children aren't sure they want to be quite so alone. Playful, whimsical, and wry, the story is vintage Atwood. Long out of print, Up in the Tree was first published in 1978. Because it was considered too expensive and risky to publish a children's book in Canada, Atwood not only wrote and illustrated the book, but hand-lettered the type. This facsimile edition captures all the charm of the original, and makes a thoughtful gift for Atwood fans as well as for young readers. € 14,50
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Three RiversAuthor: Peepre Juri, Atwood Margaret Eleanor, Saul John Ralston, Nelson Richard, Lock Sarah, Brett Brian Publisher: Baker & Taylor Finalist for 2006 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize 'Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness' is a gorgeous coffee-table book about a wilderness area so vast and so crucial to planetary survival it defies comprehension. Previously unknown to the outside world, the Yukon's Three Rivers watershed is emerging as an environmental issue of global importance--a key piece of the boreal region. The boreal forest is like a green banner draped around the northern hemisphere. It is the world's largest expanse of intact forest, covering nearly 11 percent of our planet's surface. Every breath we take is in part a gift from this immense, earth-circling ecosystem. Now the renewed Mackenzie Valley pipeline proposal, the Alaska Pipeline and escalating energy and mineral exploration in the north all threaten this last world-scale refuge of natural values--and conservationists around the world are mobilizing to defend it. 'Three Rivers' focuses on one of the most strategic undisturbed regions left in the world, an oceanic wilderness that is under threat from gas and mining development. Packed with awe-inspiring photography, art and writings by such notables as Courtney Milne, Margaret Atwood and John Ralston Saul, this sumptuous volume offers an unforgettable tour of a natural wonderland so rich in grizzly bears, wolves, caribou, peregrine falcons and wildflowers most will have difficulty believing such a place still exists. 'Three Rivers' is a prize to be cherished by anyone who appreciates great photography, fine writing and untrammelled nature, and a must-have for anyone who takes an interest in the fate of our beleaguered but still awe-inspiring planet. € 42,50
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Microfiction. 35 storie minimeAuthor: Atwood Margaret Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Lavorando di forbici Margaret Atwood ci regala trentacinque piccole perle narrative costruite per sottrazione e sintesi originale di un materiale umano e letterario sconfinato: fiabe, apologhi, dialoghi di fantascienza, fantapolitica, fantaletteratura, monologhi incalzanti, dialoghi serrati. Ne risulta una micronarrativa che ci restituisce con implacabile accuratezza e chirurgica precisione l'essenza e il paradosso della realtà. I personaggi più disparati affollano queste storie di vita, ciascuno portando un tassello al puzzle di una verità ogni volta sorprendente. Incontriamo vestiti dismessi, vecchie foto, la voce ribelle di una cantante, i giovani ambiziosi, le mamme di una volta, un gatto in paradiso, un bambino abbandonato sulla chioma di un albero... € 10,00
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2005 |
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Collected StoriesAuthor: Shields Carol, Atwood Margaret Eleanor (INT) Publisher: Perennial With the profound maturity and exquisite eye for detail that never failed to capture readers of her prize-winning novels, Carol Shields dazzles with these remarkable stories. Generous, delightful, and acutely observed, this essential collection illuminates the miracles that grace our lives; it will continue to enchant for years to come. € 15,20
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Handmaid's TaleAuthor: Margaret Atwood Publisher: VINTAGE € 11,90
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The Island of Dr. MoreauAuthor: Wells H. G., Parrinder Patrick, Atwood Margaret Eleanor (INT), Maclean Steve Publisher: Penguin Classics Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying an unusual cargo—a menagerie of savage animals. Nursed to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. There, he meets the sinister Dr. Moreau—a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilized world. It soon becomes clear that he has continued to develop these experiments with truly horrific results.
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2004 |
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CubaAuthor: Sullivan Rosemary, Batty Malcolm David (PHT), Atwood Margaret Eleanor (INT) Publisher: McArthur & Co Pub Ltd In conversation with artists and people on the street, Cuba captures the joy and fierce independence of a people who love their country. € 17,90
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Frozen In TimeAuthor: Beattie Owen, Geiger John, Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Pgw In May 1845 the Erebus and the Terror set sail from the Thames to find a northern route to the Northwest Passage with a complement of 129 men and officers, enough tinned food for three to five years, thousands of books, a dog, and a monkey. Many sailors and scholars sought their fate ever since. Here Beattie (anthropology, U. of Alberta) and Geiger (history, U. of Alberta) describe the voyage of what has become known as the Franklin Expedition, the efforts to find it, and the probable cause of its failure as found in scattered bones and bodies of a few of the crew found entombed in the permafrost. It seems they did not fail for want of courage or skill, but because that three to five years' supply of food contained deadly amounts of lead solder. This updated edition includes photographs of the exhumations and an introduction by Margaret Atwood. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) € 15,00
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Oryx and CrakeAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Anchor Books Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining. € 14,40
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Il racconto dell'ancellaAuthor: Atwood Margaret Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie In un mondo devastato dalle radiazioni atomiche, gli Stati Uniti sono divenuti uno stato totalitario, basato sul controllo del corpo femminile. Le poche donne in grado di avere figli, le 'ancelle', sono costrette alla procreazione coatta, mentre le altre sono ridotte in schiavitù. Della donna che non ha più nome e ora si chiama Difred, cioè 'di Fred', il suo padrone, sappiamo che vive nella Repubblica di Gilead, e che può allontanarsi dalla casa del padrone solo una volta al mese, per andare al mercato. Le merci non sono contrassegnate dai nomi, ma solo da figure, perché alle donne non è più permesso leggere. Apparentemente rassegnata al suo destino, Difred prega di restare incinta, unica speranza di salvezza; ma non ha del tutto perso i ricordi di 'prima'... € 14,50
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2003 |
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Negotiation With the DeadAuthor: Atwood Margaret Eleanor Publisher: Anchor Books What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he or she an entertainer? A high priest of the god Art? An improver of readers' minds and morals? And who, for that matter, are these mysterious readers? In this wise and irresistibly quotable book, one of the most intelligent writers now working in English addresses the riddle of her art: why people pursue it, how they view their calling, and what bargains they make with their audience, both real and imagined. To these fascinating issues Margaret Atwood brings a candid appraisal of her own experience as well as a breadth of reading that encompasses everything from Dante to Elmore Leonard. An ambitious artistic inquiry conducted with unpretentiousness and charm, Negotiating with the Dead is an unprecedented insider's view of the writer's universe. € 14,30
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2002 |
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Occhio di gattoAuthor: Atwood Margaret Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie In occasione della prima retrospettiva delle sue opere, la pittrice Elaine Risley torna a Toronto, la città dove è cresciuta. Se ne era andata molti anni prima per lasciarsi alle spalle i fantasmi della gioventù. Ora Elaine ritrova se stessa bambina. Momenti e atmosfere riaffiorano con lancinante chiarezza: una famiglia felice e anticonformista, che però non l'aveva salvata dall'inferno di crudeltà e ricatti orchestrato da Cordelia, amica e aguzzina. L'unico alleato di Elaine era un occhio di gatto, una biglia dura, fredda, forte come lei avrebbe voluto diventare. € 15,50
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Negoziando con le ombreAuthor: Atwood Margaret Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Qual è il ruolo dello scrittore? Profeta? Gran sacerdote dell'arte? Buffone di corte? O forse testimone del mondo reale? Perché si diventa scrittori; lo scrittore e il suo doppio; la scrittura come trattativa con l'aldilà, per recuperare qualcosa o qualcuno dal mondo dei morti; lo scrittore e il suo pubblico, con il libro come unico tramite. In queste lezioni la Atwood ci rende partecipi delle emozioni dello scrivere e della scrittura, esaminando le metafore che romanzieri e poeti hanno utilizzato per spiegare, o giustificare, le loro opere e analizzando i ruoli che essi hanno di volta in volta scelto di interpretare. € 13,50
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