Margaret Atwood Burning Questions Essays And Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 2022

Synopsis

<b>From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as-</b><br> <br> Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?<br> How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?<br> How can we live on our planet?<br> Is it true? And is it fair?<br> What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?<br> <br> In over fifty pieces 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.<br> <br> 'Brilliant and funny' <b>Joan Didion</b><br> <b><br></b>'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' <b>Ali Smith</b><br> <b><i><br></i></b>'Lights a fire from the fears of our age . . . Miraculously balances humor, outrage, and beauty' <i><b>New York Times Book Review</b></i><b><i><br></i></b><br> '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<b>' Anne Enright,</b> <i><b>Guardian</b></i><br> <br> 'The outstanding novelist of our age' <i><b>Sunday Times</b></i><br> <i><b><br></b></i><b><br></b><b>** A 2022 Book to Look Forward To in <i>The Times, i, Financial Times, Guardian, Evening Standard, New Statesman, Cosmopolitan</i> and <i>SheerLuxe</i> **</b>