Moving Targets

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Publication Year:
2004

ISBN-13: 9780887849114

<p><strong>The companion volume to the recently reissued <i>Second Words</i>, <i>Moving Targets</i> is an essential collection of critical prose by Margaret Atwood, now available in a handsome new A List edition. </strong></p><p>The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood’s work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell’s <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> on <i>The Handmaid’s Tale</i>, we trace the movement of Atwood’s fertile and curious mind in action over the years.</p><p>Atwood’s controversial political pieces, “Napoleon’s Two Biggest Mistakes” and “Letter to America” — both not-so-veiled warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq — also appear, alongside pieces that exhibit her active concern for the environment, the North, and the future of the human race. Atwood also writes about her peers: John Updike, Marina Warner, Italo Calvino, Marian Engel, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mordecai Richler, Elmore Leonard, and Ursula Le Guin.</p><p>This is a landmark volume from a major writer whose worldwide readership is in the millions, and whose work has influenced and entertained generations. <i>Moving Targets</i> is also the companion volume to the recently reissued <i>Second Words</i>.</p>