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The Door
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Ideal for readers who appreciate contemporary poetry that combines intellectual depth with emotional resonance, as well as fans of Margaret Atwood's broader literary work.
Features poems that 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.
* Author PR activity to include media interviews and appearance at Edinburgh Book Festival * Review coverage * Featured on the Virago website
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The Door is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 Morning in the Burned House. Its lucid yet 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.
As the New York Times has said, "Atwood's poems are short, glistening with terse, bright images..."
A brave and compassionate book, The Door interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on.
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The Sunday Herald asserts that this collection cements Atwood as foremost a poet, not just a novelist. Alberto Manguel, TLS, praises it as among the best works of a leading English-language poet, noting its sparse, elegiac tone sharp with wit and wisdom. The Times highlights Atwood's inventiveness and wit in poetry as well as prose.
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ISBN: 9781844084951
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 August 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 106g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace and this have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and she has won many other literary prizes in other countries.
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