Moving Targets [Paperback]

Margaret Atwood (Author)

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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: House of Anansi Press (Dec 8 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0887847358
ISBN-13: 978-0887847356
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 567 g

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #657,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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...full of utterly enjoyable, immensely readable, and devastatingly clever nuggets... (Canadian Literature )

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The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood's work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaid's Tale, we trace the movement of Atwood's fertile and curious mind in action over the years. Atwood's controversial political pieces, Napoleon's Two Biggest Mistakes and Letter to America — both not-so-veiled warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq — also appear, alongside pieces that exhibit her active concern for the environment, the North, and the future of the human race. Atwood also writes about her peers: John Updike, Marina Warner, Italo Calvino, Marian Engel, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mordecai Richler, Elmore Leonard, and Ursula Le Guin. This is a landmark volume from a major writer whose worldwide readership is in the millions, and whose work has influenced and entertained generations. Moving Targets is the companion volume to Second Words.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Happy Atwood Addict, Oct 30 2009

Kirtland Peterson "Psy.D." (Baltimore, MD, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moving Targets (Paperback)

Truth in lending, I'm a Margaret Atwood addict.

This doesn't mean everything gets 5 stars. ORYX & CRAKE and THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD are wonderful, but not her best work. Re-reading THE BLIND ASSASSIN--now there's a fabulous piece of writing. Wow! 6 stars!

I do give MOVING TARGETS 5 stars. Chances are you'd have to be an addict to want to purchase "occasional writings," but if you are such a deviant your deviancy--and CDN$15.72--will be bring great gushing pleasure.

(I just noticed, in another Firefox pane, that MOVING TARGETS was published in the US as WRITING WITH INTENT.)

As a demonstration of my satisfaction--and need for more Atwood fixes--I ordered her earlier volume of "occasional writings," SECOND WORDS. Can't wait to leap in, although SURVIVAL is up first.

Enjoy!

Kirtland Peterson

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