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January 2015 ENGLISH READING CLUB
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MARGARET ATWOOD
Moral Disorder
MARGARET ATWOOD (18 November 1939, Ottawa, Canada)
-------------------------------- BIOGRAPHY Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She moved with her family to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, in 1945 and to Toronto, Canada, in 1946. Until she was eleven she spent half of each year in the northern Ontario wilderness, where her father worked as an entomologist (insect scientist). Her favorite writer as a teen was Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), who was famous for his dark mystery stories. She was sixteen years old when she decided to pursue writing as a lifetime career. She studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1961. Then she went on to complete her master's degree at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1962. Atwood also studied at Harvard University from 1962 to 1963 and from 1965 to 1967. Atwood has received more than fifty-five awards, including two Governor General's Awards, the first in 1966 for The Circle Game, her first major book of poems; the second for her 1985 novel, The Handmaid's Tale, which was made into a movie. Most of Atwood's fiction has been translated into several foreign languages. There is a Margaret Atwood Society, a Margaret Atwood Newsletter, and an ever-increasing number of scholars studying and teaching her work in women's studies courses and in North American literature courses worldwide.
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----------------------------------SELECTED WORKS Novels
The Edible Woman; 1969. Surfacing; 1972. Lady Oracle; 1976. Life Before Man; 1979. Bodily Harm; 1981. The Handmaid’s Tale; 1985. Cat’s Eye; 1988. The Robber Bride1993. Alias Grace; 1996. The Blind Assassin; 2000. Oryx and Crake, 2003. The Penelopiad; 2005. MaddAddam; 2013.
Short Fiction
Dancing Girls; 1977. Murder in the Dark; 1983. Bluebeard’s Egg; 1983. Wilderness Tips 1991. Good Bones; 1992. The Tent; 2006. Moral Disorder; 2006. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales; 2014.
Children’s Books
Up in the Tree; 1978. Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut; 1995. Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda; 2004.
----------------------Moral Disorder (2006) Moral Disorder is a collection of connected short stories by Margaret Atwood. It chronicles the hidden pains of a troubled Canadian family over a 60 year span. All the short stories have the same female main character at different times of her life, except the last one, which is an autobiographical tale. Margaret Atwood’s latest brilliant collection of short stories follows the life of a single character, seen as a girl growing up the 1930s, a young woman in the 50s and 60s, and, in the present day, half of a couple, no longer young, reflecting on the new state of the world. Each story focuses on the ways relationships transform a character’s life: a woman’s complex love for a married man, the grief upon the death of parents and the joy with the birth of children, the realization of what growing old with someone you love really means.