Moving Targets : Writing with Intent 1982-2004

Moving Targets : Writing with Intent 1982-2004 by Margaret Atwood. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780887847356.

The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwoods work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaids Tale, we trace the movement of Atwoods fertile and curious mind in action over the years. Atwoods controversial political pieces, Napoleons Two Biggest Mistakes and Letter to America -- both not-so-veiled warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq -- also appear, alongside pieces that exhibit her active concern for the environment, the North, and the future of the human race. Atwood also writes about her peers: John Updike, Marina Warner, Italo Calvino, Marian Engel, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mordecai Richler, Elmore Leonard, and Ursula Le Guin. This is a landmark volume from a major writer whose worldwide readership is in the millions, and whose work has influenced and entertained generations. Moving Targets is the companion volume to Second Words.