Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live." --The Washington Post Book World

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 audiences, both real and imagined. To these fascinating issues Margaret Atwood brings a candid appraisal of her own experience as well as a breadth of reading that encompasses everything from Dante to Elmore Leonard. An ambitious artistic inquiry conducted with unpretentious charm, Negotiating with the Dead is an invaluable insider's view of the writer's universe.

Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 09/09/2003
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781400032600
ISBN10: 1400032601
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | Authorship
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading

About the Author
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include Cat's Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.