Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  958.Cat’s Eye. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; New York: Doubleday; London: Bloomsbury, 1988.

  Indian Journal of Canadian Studies 1 (1992): 118-119. By Charu MAINI.

  959.For the Birds. Toronto; Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1990.

  CCL: Canadian Children’s Literature 65 (1992): 83-85. By J. GELLERT.

  960.Good Bones. Toronto: Coach House Press; London: Bloomsbury, 1992.

  Books in Canada 21.7 (October 1992): 40-41. By Gary DRAPER.

  Financial Post (Toronto) 86.38 (21 September 1992): Section 1: S6. By Araminta WORDSWORTH.

  Globe and Mail (Toronto) 19 September 1992: C8. By Eve DROBOT.

  Hamilton Spectator (ON) 17 October 1992: Section: Weekend: W4. By John LEVESQUE. (432 w).

  Maclean’s 105.40 (5 October 1992): s10-s11. By John BEMROSE. (1025 w).

  Quill and Quire 58.10 (October 1992): 21. By Nancy WIGSTON.

  Sunday Times (London) 8 November 1992: Section 6: 10. By Penny PERRICK. (653 w).

  TLS 6 November 1992: 20. By Peter KEMP.

  Toronto Star 26 September 1992: Section: Weekend: K9. By Philip MARCHAND. (841 w).

  961.The Handmaid’s Tale. [Sound recording]. Read by Joanna David. Bath, UK: Chivers Audio Books, 1990. 8 sound cassettes.

  Kliatt: Young Adult Paperback Book Guide 26 (January 1992):53. By Hugh M. FLICK.

  962.Margaret Atwood: Conversations. Ed. Earl G. Ingersoll. Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press; Willowdale, ON: Firefly Books, 1990.

  Canadian Literature 132 (Spring 1992): 170-172. By Janice FIAMENGO.

  963.Poems 1976-1986. London: Virago, 1992.

  The Herald (Glasgow) 30 January 1992: 14. By Julie Maurice. (779 w). Excerpt: “For poetry, it is remarkably unpoetic. It is difficult to imagine anyone finding a line or couplet from this book recurring rhythmically in their thoughts. Nor is striking sense imagery, which seals a corner of the world in a verbal crystal, a notable feature of her work. In fact there is none of that peculiarly poetic pleasure of slow savouring and careful unpeeling of sounds and sense, no lilt or tumble or exuberant wordy expressionism. Instead there are concentrated, hotly cerebral representations of life in the northern, civilised world at the end of the twentieth century; a life easy in itself, but uneasy at the messages it receives from the edges of the global village.”

  New Statesman and Society 14 February 1992: 41. By Michèle ROBERTS.

  Times Saturday Review (London) 8 February 1992: 33. By Adrian DANNATT.

  964.Selected Poems: 1966-1984. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1990.

  Journal of Canadian Poetry 7 (1992): 7-13. By David JARRAWAY.

  965.Stories from Wilderness Tips. [Sound recording]. Read by Helen Shaver. New York: Bantam Audio, 1991.

  Booklist 88.16 (15 April 1992): 1547. By Nancy McCRAY.

  Library Journal 117.3 (15 February 1992): 218, 220. By Rochelle RATNER.

  Publishers Weekly 239.2 (6 January 1992): 30. By John ZINSSER.

  966.Wilderness Tips. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; New York: Talese/Doubleday; London: Bloomsbury, 1991.

  Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA) 12 January 1992 LIT NewsBank 1992: 8: A14-B1. By Isabel K. ROCHE.

  The Bookwatch 13.2 (February 1992): 8. ANON.

  British Book News (August 1992): 569. Review/announcement of Virago edition. ANON.

  Canadian Book Review Annual 1991. Ed. Joyce M. Wilson. Toronto: Simon and Pierre, 1992. 173. By Sarah ROBERTSON.

  Chicago Sun Times 8 December 1991 LIT NewsBank 1992: 1: C8-9. By Martin BRADY.

  Detroit News 26 February 1992 LIT NewsBank 1992: 25: A14. By Domenica MARCHETTI.

  Glamour January 1992: 72. By Laura MATHEWS.

  Grolier’s Masterplots 1992 Annual: Essay-Reviews of 100 Outstanding Books Published in the United States during 1991. Danbury, CT: Grolier Enterprises, 1992. 386-389. By Elizabeth J. JEWELL.

  Houston Chronicle 22 December 1991 LIT NewsBank 1992 1: C11. By Sally POIVOIR.

  Kansas City Star 16 February 1992 LIT NewsBank 1992: 15: B1. By Charles G. MASINTON.

  Magill’s Literary Annual 1992 Vol. 2. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, CA; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1992. 900-904. By Thomas L. ERSKINE.

  Miami Herald 15 December 1991 LIT NewsBank 1992: 1: C6. ANON.

  Milwaukee Journal 5 January 1992 LIT NewsBank 1992: 8: B4. By Steven BLACKWOOD.

  Orlando Sentinel 22 December 1991 LIT NewsBank 1992: 1: C7. ANON.

  Pittsburgh Post Gazette 27 January 1992 LIT NewsBank 1992: 9: E9. By Bob HOOVER.

  Pittsburgh Press 23 February 1992 LIT NewsBank 1992: 15: B2. By Susan Harris SMITH.

  San Francisco Examiner 9 December 1991 LIT NewsBank 1992 1: C4-5. By Cyra McFADDEN.

  Seattle Times 12 January 1992: Section: Books: K7. By Melinda BARGREEN. (736 w).

  University of Toronto Quarterly 62.1 (Fall 1992): 43. By T. L. CRAIG.

  Washington Post 6 January 1992 Section: Style: C3. By Evelyn TOYNTON.

  Women’s Review of Books 9.4 (January 1992): 6-7. By Gayle GREENE.

  World Literature Today 66.4 (Autumn 1992): 720. By B. A. St. ANDREWS.

  Reviews of Adaptations of Atwood’s Works

  967.The Handmaid’s Tale. [Motion Picture]. Screenplay by Harold Pinter; directed by Volker Schlondorff. United States: Cinecom Entertainment Group, 112 reels of 12 on 6 (ca. 9324 ft.).

  Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide: A Topical Index to 2500 Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films. Jefferson, NC; and London: McFarland, 1992. 245. By Bryan SENN and John JOHNSON.

  The Screenplay’s the Thing: Movie Criticism 1986-1990. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1992. 250-253. By Bruce BAWER.

  Variety Movie Guide. New York; London; Toronto; Sydney; Tokyo; Singapore: Prentice Hall, 1992. 253.

  ~ 1993 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  968.A noiva ladra. São Paulo: Marco Zero, ©1993. Portuguese translation of The Robber Bride by Maria J. Silveira.

  969.“Afterword.” The Diviners. By Margaret Laurence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 383-389. Reprinted from “Face to Face,” Maclean’s, May 1974.

  970.“Afterword.” A Jest of God. By Margaret Laurence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 211-215. Reprinted from 1988 edition, published by New Canadian Library / McClelland and Stewart.

  971.“Alien Territory.” Michigan Quarterly Review 32.4 (Fall 1993): 510-516. Special issue, “The Male Body (Part One).” Reprinted from Good Bones, ©1992.

  972.Aohige no tamago. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1993. Japanese translation of Bluebeard’s Egg. Title romanized.

  973.“At the Tourist Centre in Boston.” The Broadview Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1993. 828-829. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1966-1984.

  974.“Bad News.” Mississippi Review 21.1-2 (Spring 1993): 67-68. Short story. “Excerpted from Good Bones.”

  975.“Bearfeet.” Voix parallèles / Parallel Voices. Ed. Andre Carpentier and Matt Cohen. Montreal: XYZ Editeur; Kingston, ON: Quarry Press, 1993. 145-151.

  976.“Bearfeet.” Quarry 42.1 (April 1993): 9-21. “Excerpted from Parallel Voices / Voix parallèles, co-published by Quarry Press and XYZ Editeur, in May 1993.”

  977.“Beloved.” Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and K. A. Appiah. New York: Amistad, 1993. 32-35. A review of Toni Morrison’s Beloved reprinted from the New York Times 13 September 1987.

  978.“Betty.” I Know Some Things: Stories about Childhood by Contemporary Writers. Ed. Lorrie Moore. New York: Faber and Faber, 1993. 6-20. Reprinted from Dancing Girls, ©1977.

  979.“Blind Faith and Free Trade.” The Case against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA and the Globalization of Corporate Power. San Francisco: Earth Island Press; Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1993. 92-96. Reprinted from the Ottawa Citizen, 19 December 1987: B3.

  980.“Cold-Blooded.” The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories. Ed. Margaret Reynolds. Lo
ndon; New York: Penguin, 1993. 384-[386]. Reprinted from Good Bones, ©1992.

  981.Dancing Girls and Other Stories. New York; Toronto; London; Sydney; Auckland: Bantam Books, 1993 ©1977 ©1982. Same stories as 1977 Canadian edition.

  982.Dansende Meisjes. Amsterdam: B. Bakker, 1993. Translation into Dutch of short stories selected from Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories and Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Barbara de Lange.

  983.“Death of a Young Son by Drowning.” The Broadview Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1993. 833-834. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1966-1984.

  984.Die Giftmischer: Horror-Tips und Happy-Ends. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Tachenbuch, 1993 ©1985. German translation of Murder in the Dark by Anna Kamp.

  985.“Dream 1: The Bush Garden.” The Broadview Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1993. 834. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1966-1984.

  986.“Dump Bins and Shelf Strips.” A Virago Keepsake to Celebrate Twenty Years of Publishing. London: Virago, 1993. 6-8. Atwood’s relationship with her British publishers.

  987.“[Early writing, selections].” First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors. Collected and ed. Paul Mandelbaum. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1993. 8-23. Selections of Atwood’s prose and poetry written between ages of 15 through 19. Titles are “A Representative,” “Three Cheers for Corona!,” “1956—and For Ever,” “First Snow,” “The English Lesson,” “Pause Before Transition,” “A Cliché for January.” Also includes 2-page facsimile of handwritten manuscript of “A Cliché for January,” 3 photographs of Atwood (age 14, 20, and adult), and margin notes relating these pieces to her later works.

  988.The Edible Woman. [Sound recording]. [Brantford: WRMS, 1993. (Peterborough: Ontario Audio Library Service). 2 tape reels.

  989.“[Excerpt].” Great Beginnings: Opening Lines of Great Novels. By Georgianne Ensign. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. 164. Cat’s Eye is one of the selections.

  990.“[Excerpt].” Washington Post 5 September 1993: Section: Book Page: X8. (166w). From The Robber Bride

  991.“[Excerpt].” Women Without Men: Female Bonding and the American Novel of the 1980s. By Donald J. Greiner. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. 103. Excerpt from Atwood’s review of During the Reign of the Queen of Persia (reprinted from New York Times Book Review, 12 June 1983).

  992.For the Birds. Scarborough, ON: Nelson Canada, 1993 ©1990.

  993.“Further Arrivals.” The Broadview Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1993. 832-833. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1966-1984.

  994.Good Bones. Toronto: Coach House Press; London: Virago, 1993 ©1992. 153. “First paperback edition.” Same pieces as in hardcover Coach House Press edition, ©1992.

  995.Good Bones. [Sound recording]. Read by Barbara Karmazyn. Vancouver, BC: Library Services Branch, 1993. 2 sound cassettes in 1 cont. (2:25 hrs.). “This audiobook is for the exclusive use of persons unable to read print because of a physical or visual disability.” (Container).

  996.“Grimms Remembered.” The Reception of Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions. Ed. Donald Haase. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 1993. 290-292.

  997.The Handmaid’s Tale. Oxford: Heinemann New Windmills, 1993 ©1986.

  998.The Handmaid’s Tale. Charlesbourg, QU: Braille Jymico, 1993. Braille ed., abridged in 4 v.

  999.“Happy Endings.” How Stories Mean. Ed. John Metcalf and J. R. (Tim) Struthers. Erin, ON: Porcupine’s Quill, 1993. 170-173. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems, ©1983.

  1000. “He/She/It.” Queen’s Quarterly 100.1 (Spring 1993): 140-141. Poem. Reprinted from Queen’s Quarterly 71.1 (Spring 1964): 40-41.

  1001. “Homelanding.” The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990. Ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery. New York; London: W. W. Norton, 1993. 794-796. First published in Tesseracts3, 1990.

  1002. Hur Man Gör En Man: Och Andra Tidsenliga Betraktelser. Stockholm: Prisma, 1993. Swedish translation of Good Bones.

  1003. “In My Ravines.” Queen’s Quarterly 100.1 (Spring 1993): 142-143. Poem. Reprinted from Queen’s Quarterly 71.1 (Spring 1964): 42-43.

  1004. “Is/Not.” Love’s Witness: Five Centuries of Love Poetry by Women. Ed. Jill Hollis. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993. 191. Reprinted from Poems 1965-1975, Virago. Also in The Broadview Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1993. 838-839.

  1005. “Journey to the Interior.” 0The Broadview Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Herbert Rosen-garten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1993. 827-828. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1966-1984.

  1006. Lady Oracle. [Sound recording]. Edmonton: Alberta Education, 1993. 4 cassettes.

  1007. Lakomyi Kusochek. St. Petersburg: Severo-Zapad, 1993. Russian translation of The Edible Woman by N. Tolstoi. Title romanized.

  1008. “Letters to Salman Rushdie.” The Rushdie Letters: Freedom to Speak, Freedom to Write. Ed. Steve MacDonogh in association with Article 19. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. “First published in 1993 in Great Britain and Ireland by Brandon Book Publishers Ltd., Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Published simultaneously in the United States by the University of Nebraska Press.” Atwood is one of 25 writers contributing to this compilation.

  1009. Life Before Man; Cat’s Eye. London: Bloomsbury, 1993.

  1010. “Life Is Short.” Voix parallèles / Parallel Voices. Ed. Andre Carpentier and Matt Cohen. Montreal: XYZ Editeur; Kingston, ON: Quarry Press, 1993. 33-37. At-wood translation of “La vie est courte” by Monique Proulx.

  1011. “Life Is Short.” Quarry 42.1 (April 1993): 27-30. Atwood translation of “La vie est courte” by Monique Proulx. “Excerpted from Parallel Voices / Voix parallèles, co-published by Quarry Press and XYZ Editeur, in May 1993.”

  1012. “The Lively Dead.” Book World (Washington Post) 23.36 (5 September 1993): 8. Excerpt from The Robber Bride.

  1013. “The Loneliness of the Military Historian.” Book Group Companion to Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1993. 22-24. Reprinted from The Times Literary Supplement, 14-20 September 1990. Poem.

  1014. “Making Poison.” Myths and Voices: Contemporary Canadian Fiction. Ed. David Lampe. Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1993. 61-62.

  1015. Margaret Atwood Reads. [Sound recording]. New York: Caedmon, 1993 ©1977. 1 sound cassette. Includes “The Animals in That Country,” “A Foundling,” “The Landlady,” “At the Tourist Center in Boston,” “Roominghouse, Winter,” “Game After Supper,” “Girl and Horse, 1928,” “The Small Cabin,” “Midwinter, Presol-stice,” “6 A.M., Boston Summer Sublet,” “Dreams of the Animals,” “Cyclops,” “Younger Sister, Going Swimming,” “Power Politics,” “They Eat Out,” “My Beautiful Wooden Leader,” “We Are Hard on Each Other,” “At First I Was Given Centuries,” “You Refuse to Own Yourself,” “They Are Hostile Nations,” “They Were All Inaccurate,” “Tricks with Mirrors,” “You Are Happy,” “There Is Only One of Everything,” “Late August,” “Book of Ancestors.” [Ed. note: Also published in 1992 under different title, The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood, and by a different publisher—New York: HarperCollins.]

  1016. “Margaret Atwood’s Address to the American Booksellers Association Convention: Miami, Florida; June 1, 1993.” Book Group Companion to Margaret At-wood’s The Robber Bride. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1993. 7-13.

  1017. “Monet’s Olympia.” Ploughshares 19.4 (1993): 83-84. Poem.

  1018. “More and More.” Love’s Witness: Five Centuries of Love Poetry by Women. Ed. Jill Hollis. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993. 267. Reprinted from “Poems 1965-1975, Virago.”

  1019. “Murder in the Dark.” Myths and Voices: Contemporary Canad
ian Fiction. Ed. David Lampe. Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1993. 63-65. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark.

  1020. “Murder in Turkey.” New York Review of Books 40.9 (13 May 1993): 57. Letter to the editors on murder of 13 journalists since January 1992; Atwood one of 20 writers signing letter.

  1021. “Peau d’ours.” Voix parallèles / Parallel Voices. Ed. Andre Carpentier and Matt Cohen. Montreal: XYZ Editeur; Kingston, ON: Quarry Press, 1993. 152-159. French translation of “Bearfeet” by Monique Proulx.

  1022. “Peau d’ours.” Quarry 42.1 (April 1993): 15-21. French translation of “Bearfeet” by Monique Proulx. “Excerpted from Parallel Voices / Voix parallèles, co-published by Quarry Press and XYZ Editeur, in May 1993.”

  1023. The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Volume One: The Early Years. Ed. Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan. Introduction and introductory notes (vii-xii) by Margaret Atwood. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1993.

  1024. “Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer.” The Broadview Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1993. 830-832. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1966-1984.

  1025. Promotional blurb, back dust-jacket flap for Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Reprinted from Canadian Literature.

  1026. “Provence: Romans vs. Celts.” New York Times 12 September 1993: Section 6: 17. (3751 w). Reflections on Provence (France) where she had spend some time the previous year.

  1027. “Rape Fantasies.” Fiction: A HarperCollins Pocket Anthology. [Ed.] R. S. Gwynn. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1993. 294-301. Reprinted from Dancing Girls and Other Stories, ©1977.

  1028. “The Robber Bride.” Saturday Night October 1993: 56-61. “Excerpted from The Robber Bride”; photograph of Atwood by Suzanne Langevin; illustrations by Balvis Rubess.

  1029. “The Robber Bride.” Sunday Times Books 10 October 1993: Section 6: I-IV. “Chapter five is extracted from The Robber Bride”; photograph of Atwood by Lawrence Barns.

  1030. The Robber Bride. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993. 546 pp. US edition: New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1993. 466 pp. “A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by The Franklin Library.” UK edition: London: Bloomsbury, 1993. Limited edition of “150 copies, numbered and signed by the author” available from London Limited Editions (information from promotional letter from London Limited Editions). Three middle-aged women have little in common except Zenia, who slithered into their lives and stole their men, their money, and their self-respect. They believe that Zenia died years ago in Beirut, but her reappearance creates turmoil.