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In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaidâ??s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granolaâ??and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...

â? Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handmaidâ??s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx & Crake, and her other beloved works.
â? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?
â? How can we live on our planet?
â? Is it true? And is it fair?
â? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?

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, th

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: 01/03/2022
      ISBN13: 9780385547482, 978-0385547482
      ISBN10: 038554748X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaidâ??s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granolaâ??and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...

      â? Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handmaidâ??s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx & Crake, and her other beloved works.
      â? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?
      â? How can we live on our planet?
      â? Is it true? And is it fair?
      â? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?

      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, th

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