Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Associations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Ms. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International.
The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin , it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.
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這是一部前緊後鬆、前好後差的小說,讓人感覺一頭沉。 首先是結構,本書的結構是否能算得上精巧?我看不能,因為它並不完整。如果說,小說開頭是依靠雙女主視角、現在和過去的變換、現實和虛構的關聯來構成所謂嵌套結構的話,那麼結尾的反轉是不是有意打破瞭這種結構?比如,在...
評分這是一部前緊後鬆、前好後差的小說,讓人感覺一頭沉。 首先是結構,本書的結構是否能算得上精巧?我看不能,因為它並不完整。如果說,小說開頭是依靠雙女主視角、現在和過去的變換、現實和虛構的關聯來構成所謂嵌套結構的話,那麼結尾的反轉是不是有意打破瞭這種結構?比如,在...
評分我和親愛的同事歐兒小姐窩在大圖檢室裏,邊工作邊阿特伍德。 她手裏的是《可以吃的女人》,我手裏的是《盲刺客》。 她是個習慣一個字一個字啃書的細心女人,我是個修煉一目十行能力的抽象男人,我們在這次閱讀中找到瞭共同點,那就是在嘩嘩的翻頁聲中大聲的嘆氣。 這老太太太...
評分一般看來,如果譯者的筆力夠用,並明瞭原文作者最為看重的就是作品的開篇,它的第一節、第一個句子的話,並在這裏同樣下過功夫的話,那麼這譯者應該還算不錯。 原文第一段為五句,最後兩句是: Chunks of the bridge fell on top of it.Nothing much was left of her but c...
評分booker的這個奬很有趣,很英國,當諾貝爾越來越奧斯卡化的時候,它還保持著純樸的瘋癲精神。通過收集近些年的booker奬作品之後,發現這是個旨在奬勵有趣但是無聊小說的奬項,類似中國的故事會吧。情節有趣,意義無聊或者根本就沒意義。盲刺客是2000年的獲奬作品,時年作者已六...
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翻過來看第二遍的時候纔發現,各種隱綫在書中書的開頭早已布下,真是設計精妙
評分其實真相已經猜得差不多,可是沒有猜到iris跟alex james... 讀到最後就剩下傷感...
評分讀到最後20頁 全部都變瞭 也許我在前麵會有想之間的聯係 但我刻意不去想而隻看故事本身 果然最後的衝擊對我來說很大 讓我對所有之前人物命運的惱怒都揮之而去 剩下的隻是嘆息 我好蠢啊 還沒讀完就去跟人討論對這書的看法 這本書改變瞭我對加拿大人的看法瞭 真的是國寶級的作傢..
評分這是我讀過結構最復雜的小說,值得重讀。
評分這大概是我讀過的結構最復雜的小說。也是因為這個結構,所以最核心的謎團一直保留到結尾纔揭曉。Atwood在各個時間點和視角轉換點間的切換十分平順,所以纔能撐得起這麼復雜的結構。
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