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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The\Maddaddam Trilogy Ser.
In a little enclave called the cob house a motley crew of survivors live alongside the green-eyed Crakers, a gentle, inquisitive species bio-engineered to replace humans.Toby, a member of the now-defunct Gods Gardeners, is still in love with Zeb. The Crakers' reluctant prophet, Snowman (or Jimmy, or Sno ...Show more
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers - a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The ...Show more
Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 lif ...Show more
Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Margaret Atwood has long been praised for the wit, sympathy and intelligence she brings to her depictions of ordinary people struggling with life's complexities. In Moral Disorder, she again draws on common experiences - the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death - to dramatic, ofte ...Show more
Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
These short fictions and prose poems are beautifully bizarre: bread can no longer be thought of as wholesome comforting loaves; the pretensions of the male chef are subjected to a loght roasting; a poisonous brew is concocted by cynical five year olds; and knowing when to stop is of deadly importance in ...Show more
Negotiating with the Dead - A writer on writing by Margaret Atwood
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: good
An ambitious inquiry into the art of writing and an unprecedented insider's view of the writer's universe, from the beloved author of The Handmaid's Tale. What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he or she an entertainer? An improver of readers' minds and morals? And who, for that matter ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood: Collected Stories by Margaret Atwood
$50.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore th ...Show more
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activ ...Show more
Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The Maddaddam Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The narrator of Margaret Atwood's riveting new novel is Snowman, self-named though not self-created. As the story opens, he's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bed-sheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, Snowman's ...Show more
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
$31.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The MaddAddam Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some r ...Show more
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical an ...Show more
Stone Mattress - Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman bo ...Show more