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Moral Disorder
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Author(s): Margaret Atwood  
ISBN: 1844080331
ISBN-13: 9781844080335
Publication Date: 06 Sep 2007
Pages: 272 (198 x 126)
Format: Paperback
Published Price: £7.99


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'Atwood entices us to flip through the photo album of a Canadian woman who closely resembles herself. Come here, sit beside me, she seems to say. Then she takes us on an emotional journey through loneliness, love, loss and old age' Sarah Emily Miano, THE TIMES Short stories that trace the course of a life, and the lives intertwined with it - MORAL DISORDER is Margaret Atwood at her very finest. 'Funny, touching, beady-eyed, slouchily elegant, giving us family life in all its horrors. The secret resentments and alignments - difficult siblings, unfair parents, hopeless yearnings and rage ? are funny to read about, hellish to experience. Atwood makes it look so easy, doing what she does best: tenderly dissecting the human heart ...A marvellous writer' Lee Langley, DAILY MAIL 'A model of distillation, precision, clarity and detail ...Atwood writes with compassion and intensity not only about her characters but also about the 20th century itself' Mary Flanagan, INDEPENDENT 'MORAL DISORDER is an infinitely ingenious and perceptive study, as intimate as a self-portrait but with an epic breadth of vision. It deserves to become a quiet classic' Charlotte Moore, SPECTATOR

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'A model of distillation, precision, clarity and detail ... Atwood writes with compassion and intensity not only about her characters but also about the 20th century itself' INDEPENDENT 'Ingenious and perceptive... deserves to become a quiet classic' SPECTATOR 'An emotional journey through loneliness, love, loss and old age... This snapshot collection is a study of memory, to be cherished' THE TIMES 'Vivid, crispy focused, full of depth and beguiling detail' SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE 'Atwood at her slyest and sweetest. There really is nobody like her' GUARDIAN 'A stunning literary collage of one woman's life' LONDON PAPER 'As always ... Atwood is exceptionally precise in her rendering of this life, acutely attuned to its attendant ironies and comedy, and piercing in her observations' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye – both shortlisted for the Booker Prize – The Robber Bride, and Alias Grace, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Modello in Italy. Her tenth novel, The Blind Assassin, won the Booker Prize in 2000.

Her work is acclaimed internationally and has been translated into thirty-three languages. She is the recipient of many literary awards and honours from various countries, including Britain, Italy, France, Sweden, and Norway, as well as Canada and the United States. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.



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