{"product_id":"burning-questions-essays-and-occasional-pieces-2004-to-2021-hardcover","title":"Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Testaments\u003c\/i\u003e offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola--and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Oryx \u0026amp; Crake\u003c\/i\u003e, and her other beloved works.\u003cbr\u003e - How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?\u003cbr\u003e - How can we live on our planet?\u003cbr\u003e - Is it true? And is it fair?\u003cbr\u003e - What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood's views on the climate crisis, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.43 x 9.58 x 6.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767354884384,"sku":"9780385547482","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0eaa3de32055d5f1208c10fb6d8ce8b2.webp?v=1780309796","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/burning-questions-essays-and-occasional-pieces-2004-to-2021-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}