Would you like to see this page in English? Click here.

 

ou
Ouvrez une session pour activer Commander en 1-Click.
 
 
D'autres produits offerts
11 neufs & d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 0.99

Vous en avez un à vendre?
Vendez les vôtres ici
 
   
Surfacing
 
 

Surfacing (Paperback)

de Marie-Claire Blais (Afterword), Margaret Atwood (Author)
3.5étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (28 évaluations de client)
Price: CDN$ 9.95 & se qualifie pour Livraison super-économique GRATUITE pour des commandes de plus de CDN$ 39. Détails
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Habituellement expédié sous 3 à 5 semaines.
Vendu et expédié par Amazon.ca.

Commandez-vous pour Noël? Lexpédition de cet article nécessite quelques jours supplémentaires. Il sera livré après 25 décembre. Besoin d'un cadeau de dernèire minute? Offrez un chèque-cadeau.

9 d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 0.99 1 de collection à partir de CDN$ 4.99

Offres spéciales et liens associés


Produits fréquemment achetés ensemble

Surfacing + The Diviners + In the Skin of a Lion
Prix public : CDN$ 53.90
Prix pour les trois: CDN$ 42.03

Certains de ces articles seront expédiés plus tôt que les autres. Afficher l'information

  • Cet article : Surfacing de Marie-Claire Blais

    Habituellement expédié sous 3 à 5 semaines.
    Vendu et expédié par Amazon.ca.
    Se qualifie pour Livraison super-économique GRATUITE pour des commandes de plus de CDN$ 39. Détails

  • The Diviners de Margaret Laurence

    En stock.
    Vendu et expédié par Amazon.ca.
    Se qualifie pour Livraison super-économique GRATUITE pour des commandes de plus de CDN$ 39. Détails

  • In the Skin of a Lion de Michael Ondaatje

    Habituellement expédié sous 1 à 2 mois.
    Vendu et expédié par Amazon.ca.
    Se qualifie pour Livraison super-économique GRATUITE pour des commandes de plus de CDN$ 39. Détails


Les clients qui ont acheté cet article ont aussi acheté

Lady Oracle

Lady Oracle

de Margaret Atwood
4.0étoiles sur 5 (1)  CDN$ 9.89
The Diviners

The Diviners

de Margaret Laurence
4.5étoiles sur 5 (22)  CDN$ 16.75
As for Me and My House

As for Me and My House

de Sinclair Ross
3.8étoiles sur 5 (5)  CDN$ 13.83
Edible Woman

Edible Woman

de Margaret Atwood
4.3étoiles sur 5 (26)  CDN$ 10.79
Lives of Girls and Women (Penguin Modern Classics)

Lives of Girls and Women (Penguin Modern Classics)

de Jane Smiley
CDN$ 13.87
Découvrez des articles similaires

Les détails du produit


Descriptions du produit

Amazon.ca

First published in 1972, Surfacing was Margaret Atwood's second novel, following the critically acclaimed The Edible Woman. Atwood had already made her mark as a one of the most exciting new voices in Canadian poetry, winning the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game, while her groundbreaking book of criticism, Survival, had started the process of redefining the meaning of Canadian literature.

In Surfacing, poetry and prose brilliantly come together in a heart-wrenching novel that focuses on a woman's desperate attempt to put the ghosts of her past to rest. With three friends, she's returned to the remote cabin in Northern Quebec where she spent her childhood. She's overwhelmed, almost to the point of emotional paralysis, by memories of her father and his death by drowning, her failed marriage and painful divorce, and an abortion that haunts her waking dreams. While she appears to be ambivalent about the landscape, it is the landscape that in fact will provide her with the means of healing herself and her broken spirit. Like Atwood's poetry of this period, Surfacing is a deeply psychological novel. Atwood uses the recurring image of surfacing from beneath the waves of an icy northern lake as a symbol of this woman's struggle to regain control of her life, to refuse to be a victim of her past. Surfacing is a poignant novel filled with the power of the Canadian wilderness to cleanse the soul, an image of the wilderness that has remained a preoccupation for Atwood throughout her writing career. --Jeffrey Canton --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.



Review

“One of the most important novels of the twentieth century…utterly remarkable.”
New York Times Book Review

“Atwood probes emotions with X-ray precision. All in all, it’s an exhilarating performance.”
Globe and Mail

“A brilliant tour-de-force.”
Winnipeg Free Press

“Atwood’s powers of observation are disconcertingly acute, combining an ear for the vernacular with an eye for the jugular.”
Time

“The depth and complexity of Atwood’s critique of contemporary society are stunning.”
Ms.

“It is excellent in so many ways that one cannot begin to do justice to it in a review. It has to be read and experienced.”
–Margaret Laurence, Quarry

“Margaret Atwood is one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century.”
Vogue

“In this disturbing book, Margaret Atwood has written a fascinating, sometimes frightening novel about our Canadian landscape, about our paranoia, about what we are and what we are becoming.…Astonishing.”
Edmonton Journal

Surfacing is likely the best piece of fiction produced by Atwood’s generation in North America or anywhere.”
Canadian Forum

“[Atwood is] a superb storyteller who brings intelligence and wit to bear in a compelling personal vision.”
Toronto Star

“It is quite simply superb.…She writes with the ease of total acceptance, from right inside the culture, authenticating our experience, holding up a mirror so that the image we get back is not distorted by satire or made unreal by proselytizing…but real.”
Maclean’s

“The sophistication of its telling, the power of observation and imagination make the book remarkable.…It’s a masterful encounter with the way we live now.”
Kingston Whig-Standard

Dans ce livre (les détails)
Parcourir les pages échantillon
Plat recto | Droit d'auteur | Extrait
Cherchez à l'intérieur de ce livre:

Associer des mots-clés à ce produit

 (De quoi s'agit-il ?)
Considérez votre mot-clé comme une sorte d'étiquette définissant parfaitement ce produit.
Les mots-clés aident les clients à organiser et trouver leurs articles favoris.
Vos mots-clés : Ajouter votre premier mot-clé
 

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Surfacing
71% buy the item featured on this page:
Surfacing 3.5étoiles sur 5 (28)
CDN$ 9.95
Outliers: The Story of Success
9% buy
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.1étoiles sur 5 (32)
CDN$ 18.59
As for Me and My House
7% buy
As for Me and My House 3.8étoiles sur 5 (5)
CDN$ 13.83
In the Skin of a Lion
7% buy
In the Skin of a Lion 4.0étoiles sur 5 (48)
CDN$ 15.33

 

L'avis des consommateurs

28 évaluations
5 étoiles:
 (10)
4 étoiles:
 (6)
3 étoiles:
 (4)
2 étoiles:
 (4)
1 étoiles:
 (4)
 
 
 
 
 
Évaluation du client type
3.5étoiles sur 5 (28 évaluations de client)
 
 
 
 
Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients:
Commentaires client les plus utiles

 
4.0étoiles sur 5 Surfacing? Sinking? Or sunk?, Janv. 27 2002
Par Cipriano "www.bookpuddle.blogspot.com" (Planet Claire) - Voir tous mes commentaires
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   
This review is from: Surfacing (Paperback)
On the exterior many lives are impetuously lived, in constant motion, constant flux, demanding change... while on the inside, important wheels have long since stopped turning. Crucial questions languish, not so much from being already answered as from never having been asked. Another type of person floats along fairly steady, and constant diversion is not really an issue... but on the inside, they are a whirligig. Always asking and re-asking, backpedalling, and here in the unseen realm the action is taking place, like a duck's feet underwater.
The nameless protagonist in Atwood's Surfacing is of this latter variety, contemplative and introspective. Together with three friends of the former type of personality (a married couple and her boyfriend Joe), these four drive off into the remote Quebec wilderness for a few days of R & R. This whirligig character however, has a far greater purpose in mind. She is returning here to her childhood home in search of her father who has mysteriously vanished without a trace. While these other three suntan, fish, and bicker, she is on a quest that calls forth a recollection of her entire upbringing and childhood. We sense that if she finds her father at all, it will be in a way that is as surprising to the reader as it will be to herself.
She's a great character. If it wasn't for her the others would seemingly starve to death, seated at the table and surrounded by victuals but unaware of how to prepare lunch. She's the organizer, the fish-filleter, the decision-maker... hourly explaining to her friends what will happen next. She is the individual who surfaces, thinks for herself, and finds an identity within. In stark contrast are her friends who seem to only find sustenance in the pieces they can bite off of each other and ingest.
As in so much of Atwood's work, these men are soon to reveal their inherent nasty dogness. On two occasions Whirligig avoids being (essentially) raped by each of them only by reminding them that it is "the right time" for her to get pregnant. But she is not a heroine without her own foibles. She realizes her own problems, the greatest of which may be her her inability to return the "love" that has been offered her throughout her life. Her detached coldness. But the importance in becoming whole (self-actualized?) may lie right there in this word "realizing", which, in the case of this novel MAY be synonymous with the word "surfacing". Throughout the book a central question seems to repeat itself... what does it mean to love? What if I don't "feel" love when someone says "I love you"? What does it mean to love one's past, one's history? To love your parents, your self... to love your lovers. And what does it mean to withdraw, to UTTERLY withdraw? These are the kind of meaty questions that surface in this book, brilliantly written and permeated with dark symbolism and a misty/ethereal 70's New-Ageyness to it. In Atwoodland, anything and everything can be a talisman.
"It's true, I am by myself; this is what I wanted, to stay here alone. From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are are no longer any rational points of view." Is Whirligig sane or insane on the last page? Surfacing or submerged? The author leaves the verdict in the hands of the reader. I enjoyed reading it, and haven't yet set the gavel down.
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)



 
5.0étoiles sur 5 Dark Surfacing, Janv. 1 2002
Par Denton Loving (Speedwell, TN USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
(REAL NAME)   
This review is from: Surfacing (Paperback)
Having read most of Margaret Atwood's works of fiction, I have to say that Surfacing is probably the darkest of any I have read by her -- including the Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has an uncanny ability to make normal things have a very macabre meaning. Surfacing is probably the book where she best uses her gift of extended metaphor. Her writing style in this book is even more free-flowing than is typical for Atwood. While Surfacing is one of Atwood's shorter novels, this story of a young woman realizing and dealing with her mental paralysis, is fantastic.
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)



 
4.0étoiles sur 5 Quest Symbolism in The Twilight Zone, Déc 5 2001
Par justin (Montreal, QC, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Surfacing (Paperback)
"Surfacing" is the second Atwood book I've experienced, and to be honest, I found her narrative style in this one more accessible than in "The Handmaid's Tale". The first 165 pages evoke a cynicism rooted deep in the apathy of 1970's North American culture, especially from a Canadian perspective. While Americans may find the references to the "flag-waving Yankees" the narrator loathes so much a bit distasteful in the light of recent events, the book must be taken as a narrative of one woman's personal struggle. While many of the narrator's opinions may find readers slightly offended, they provide a vehicle for her own personal frustration. The last few chapters seem a bit far-fetched compared to the others, but then again, I don't recommend reading the entire book in one sitting for that very reason. Though turned off by some elements of "weirdness" (the very same reason I didn't get into "The Handmaid's Tale"), I found "Surfacing" to be one of the most psychologically-challenging novels I've read, and perhaps the discomfort I felt while finishing the last page is post-magical-realism at its finest-- "There's no way this could happen...I think. Well...maybe?"

Try it out for yourself, but please don't judge its value on a few anti-American references. Remember, she's Canadian, and the book was written in the 70's.

Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)


Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients: Créer votre propre commentaire
 
 
Commentaires client les plus récents

5.0étoiles sur 5 The Green Years of Young Margaret
This is one of Atwoods early novels. Written in the seventies it has many of that decades concerns in it: environmentalism, organic reality taking precedence over... Read more
Publié le Oct. 10 2001 par Doug Anderson

4.0étoiles sur 5 Good,but disturbing
I have read several other of Margaret Atwood's books and have really enjoyed them.I was quite impressed to see that she gave away the $20,000 that she won from a Book Award. Read more
Publié le Sep 17 2001 par bookworm5199

5.0étoiles sur 5 GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
READ THIS NOVEL. This is the only book that I have read recently that should be required reading for the human race. Read more
Publié le Juil 7 2001

2.0étoiles sur 5 The boring world of a stereotype
Margaret Atwood is an excellent writer, but this book is not quite it. The characters are too stereotypical and he plot is pretty repetitive. Read more
Publié le Fév 6 2001 par I. M. Sanchez Prado

1.0étoiles sur 5 Too Weird
I was forced to read this book for a sociology class. It was extremely difficult to digest and not comprehensive at all. I can't imagine reading this for pleasure! Read more
Publié le Janv. 30 2001

5.0étoiles sur 5 SURFACING
"We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our... Read more
Publié le Janv. 4 2001 par Shadow Woman

4.0étoiles sur 5 Reunited with the personal self
For me the essence of this novel is the journey undertaken by a young woman as she returns to her inner self. Read more
Publié le Nov. 15 2000 par Luan Gaines

4.0étoiles sur 5 Reunited with the personal self
For me the essence of this novel is the journey undertaken by a young woman as she returns to her inner self. Read more
Publié le Nov. 15 2000 par Luan Gaines

1.0étoiles sur 5 "Importance" is relative
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (Popular Library, 1972)
availability: in print

This is a book that wanted to be IMPORTANT. Read more

Publié le Aoû 14 2000 par Robert P. Beveridge

5.0étoiles sur 5 Entertaining, yet meaningful
I have a feeling that those who rated this book with three or less stars have no idea what the book is about. Read more
Publié le Juil 7 2000 par belladena

Rechercher uniquement sur les commentaires portant sur ce produit



Listmania!


Cherchez des articles semblables par catégorie


Chercher des articles semblables par sujet


Commentaires

Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?

Votre historique récent

 (En savoir plus)

Après avoir visualisé des pages détaillées produit ou des résultats de recherche, regardez ici pour trouver une façon simple de poursuivre votre navigation sur des pages qui vous intéressent.