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| Title | : | The Tent |
| Author | : | Margaret Atwood |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 159 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2006 by Nan A. Talese |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Poetry. Cultural. Canada. Writing. Essays. Literature. Literary Fiction |
Margaret Atwood
Hardcover | Pages: 159 pages Rating: 3.69 | 5814 Users | 604 Reviews
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One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative, vintage Atwoodian mini-fictions speak on a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision. In pieces ranging in length from a mere paragraph to several pages, Atwood gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; gives us Horatio's real views on Hamlet; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. Bring Back Mom: An Invocation; explores what life was really like for the "perfect" homemakers of days gone by, and in The Animals Reject Their Names she runs history backward, with surprising results. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, The Tent is vintage Atwood, enhanced by the author's delightful drawings.Present Books Conducive To The Tent
| Original Title: | The Tent |
| ISBN: | 0385516681 (ISBN13: 9780385516686) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 5814 Users | 604 ReviewsEvaluate Epithetical Books The Tent
My First Margaret Atwood book. *Yay* Found her writing style intriguing but quite hard to follow at times. Must read her other works sometime soon. :) Also, Will try to re-read this book someday ! (Though I finished the book, I'm still not satisfied. I feel like I missed out something)Really, really enjoyed this! Its a collection of super short stories that felt more personal that anything Ive read from Atwood yet. I really loved Voice especially, but a lot of the stories focused on Atwoods career as a writer. I adore Margaret Atwood, so I was all about it. Heres a list of my very favorites : Impenetrable Forest Voice Resources of the Ikarians Its Not Easy Being Half Divine Three Novels I Wont Write Soon Bring Back Mom : An Invocation King Log In Exile Faster Nightingale
Found it hard to get into - it's a really short book and each story/"fictional essay" averages about 3-4 pages but I just didn't really get it? Some stories had some good imagery but a lot just left me thinking "what". Almost all of them have a really obvious "point" but often the story itself doesn't really support it well - it just feels messy. Sometimes the imagery just makes no sense at all. The tone is kind of weird - most feel almost like they're lecturing at you and in the way where it's
I have no idea what this is about. There's a broadchurch of ideas enclosed within this tent. Some I could understand, most I couldn't get the drift of...in the words of one of Peggy Atwood's teachers "perhaps that makes it very good".Might have been more accessible with a more appealing narrator or it might have been better being read on the printed page.It's obviously brilliant but needed more of that brilliance to be accessible for an extra star.
I'm giving this three stars, not because the writing isn't great, or because the content isn't great. The problem was that it was too great. My little mind had to struggle a bit with each essay to truly understand what the author was trying to portray.This is my first Margaret Atwood, but I hope her other books aren't as difficult to comprehend as this one was. I can say though, that this might be a good pick of essays for Halloween, since all the essays touched upon really grim and dark takes
Although not as thought provoking as 'Good Bones' another collection of inventive, and often funny fictional essays by Margaret Atwood. I must admit I don't like her poetry or fictional essays anywhere as much as I like her novels. 5 out of 12
To Margaret Atwood: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I've long been a fan of Margaret Atwood, ever since I read The Handmaid's Tale, one of the most frightening books I've ever read. Then she did a reading of 'Oryx and Crake' at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver which I attended. I was on crutches at the time with a broken ankle, and she was charm personified, and suggested I find a cat to purr over my ankle.The blurb on the front of 'The Tent' (from the Sunday Times) says: Atwood
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