ISBN |
9780349006239 (paperback) |
Classification Number |
808.3 ATW |
Author |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- |
Title |
On writers and writing [BK] |
Edition |
1st Anchor Books ed. |
Publisher |
London : : Virago Press,, 2015. |
Note |
Originally published as: Negotiating with the dead. 2003. |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Orientation: Who do you think you are? -- What is `a writer,' and how did I become one? -- 2.Duplicity: The jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double -- Why there are always two -- 3.Dedication: The Great God Pen -- Apollo vs. Mammon: at whose altar should the writer worship? -- 4.Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & Co. -- Who waves the wand, pulls the strings, or signs the Devil's book? -- 5.Communion: Nobody to Nobody -- The eternal triangle: the writer, the reader, and the book as go-between -- 6.Descent: Negotiating with the dead -- Who makes the trip to the Underworld, and why?. |
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. |
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, -- 1939- |
Subject |
Fiction -- Authorship |
Authorship |
Literature |
Additional |
Negotiating with the dead. |