The Tent
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771008732
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008733
- Seller
-
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2006. Hard cover, 156 pages. Black cloth book with metallic red titles on the spine. Dust jacket design by Margaret Atwood and William Webb. Illustrations by Margaret Atwood. Mini-fictions in the form of monologues, pretend histories and autobiographies, with illustrations by the author. Signed by the author. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
Margaret Atwood is one of the world's most esteemed authors, a writer of wide range--novels, stories, essays, criticism. She now brings readers a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays punctuated with her own wonderful illustrations. Chilling and witty, these highly imaginative, Atwoodian pieces speak on a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision.Herein 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. Prescient and personal, delectable and tart, The Tent is vintage Atwood.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ayers Books/Livres Ayers (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001142
- Title
- The Tent
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0771008732
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008733
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
- Keywords
- Canadian Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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