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Burning Questions
The Sunday Times bestseller from Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood
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An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood.
The Sunday Times bestselling collection of funny, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient essays from cultural icon Margaret Atwood.
In it, she seeks answers to Burning Questions such as:
- Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?
- How can we live on our planet?
- What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?
In Burning Questions, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer—only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe.
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'Brilliant and funny' - Joan Didion
'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' - Ali Smith
'Lights a fire from the fears of our age . . . Miraculously balances humor, outrage, and beauty' - New York Times Book Review
'All over the reading world, the history books are being opened to the next blank page and Atwood's name is written at the top of it' - Anne Enright, Guardian
'The outstanding novelist of our age' - Sunday Times
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Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood is a compelling collection of essays that delves into various pressing topics, ranging from literature and politics to climate change and technology, with Atwood's characteristic wit and depth. Critics praise the work for its enlightening insights into both Atwood's own novels and a myriad of global issues, offering an engaging and thought-provoking read for both Atwood fans and newcomers alike. Her ability to celebrate other writers while tackling big questions makes the collection both diverse and cohesive.
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ISBN: 9781529114980
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 September 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 351g
Pages: 512
About the Author
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade; in 2022 Burning Questions, a selection of essays, was a Sunday Times bestseller; and in 2023, Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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