The tent

Atwood, Margaret 1939- (Author).

Summary: 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. --[Goodreads].

Record details

ISBN: 0771008732 (hc)
ISBN: 9780771008733
Physical Description: 155 p. ; 20 cm
print
Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Short stories.

Formatted Contents Note:

Life stories -- Clothing dreams -- Bottle -- Impenetrable forest -- Encouraging the young -- Voice -- No more photos -- Orphan stories -- Gateway -- Bottle II -- Winter's tales -- It's not easy being half-divine -- Salome was a dancer -- Plots for exotics -- Resources of the Ikarians -- Our cat enters heaven -- Chicken little goes too far -- Thylacine ragout -- The animals reject their names and things return to their origins -- Three novels I won't write soon -- Take charge -- Post-colonial -- Heritage house -- Bring back mom : an invocation -- Horatio's version -- King log in exile -- Faster -- Eating the birds -- Something has happened -- Nightingale -- Warlords -- The tent -- Time folds -- Tree baby -- But it could still.