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Burning Questions : Essays And Occasional Pieces 2004-2021
Hardback Edition: 1
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:
Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?
How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?
How can
we live on our planet?
Is it true? And is it fair?
What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?
In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
Publisher : Random House
Pages : 528
Publication date : 2022-03-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL, Science And Technology, Literature & Literary Studies, Earth Science, Literary Essays, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Social Impact Of Environmental Issues