Negotiating with the Dead : A Writer on Writing (Hardcover)

from Ma_Washigeri

Plus a half star. It would have been fabulous to be at her lectures on which the book was based. The philosophy was less convincing on the page but the moments of personal experience were touching.

from Ma_Washigeri

Plus a half star. It would have been fabulous to be at her lectures on which the book was based. The philosophy was less convincing on the page but the moments of personal experience were touching.

from mrstreme

Negotiating With The Dead: A Writer on Writing was a scholarly study about writers, readers and the stories that connect them, written by Margaret Atwood. A collection of six essays based on a series of lectures given by Atwood at Cambridge University, it's an intelligent look into what makes wri...

from jharlton

I like some of what Atwood has to say. I do feel that she is a little too omniscient at times, especially in the last chapter where she lets us know what the dead really want. But, she does make some fine points and does it with tact. The literary allusions got me down though, made me feel that I...

from Lukerik

Very interesting, learned, but easy to read and funny at times. I'd recommend this to anyone who habitually reads. Atwood opens quite innocuously with a memoir and description of the literary scene in mid-20th C Canada. There's an interesting discussion of the relationship between the author and ...