A Reception with Margaret Atwood
With a Booker Prize level contribution of $500 or more to the Inprint Annual Fund, you will be invited to attend a private reception with Booker Prize winning author Margaret Atwood.
Monday
January 23, 2012
6 pm
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Ms. Atwood will be in Houston to read as part of the 2011/2012 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Enjoy drinks, appetizers, and have the chance to meet Ms. Atwood in an intimate setting. Invitations will be sent via email after the holidays with details on the venue.
Margaret Atwood, the author of more than 40 books, has been writing for five decades and is an internationally celebrated novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. The San Francisco Chronicle says, "Throughout her literary career…Margaret Atwood has impressed and delighted readers with her wit, lyric virtuosity, and imaginative acuity," and The New York Times Book Review writes, “The tremendous imaginative power of [Atwood’s] fiction allows us to believe that anything is possible.”
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times says her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, the sequel to Oryx and Crake in the MaddAddam trilogy, is “[written with] energy, inventiveness, and narrative panache....A gripping and visceral book that showcases [Atwood’s] pure storytelling talents.” The Kansas City Star says, “Leave it to Atwood to find humor in a post-apocalyptic world as she covertly, and brilliantly, addresses questions of how we need to live on an imperiled planet.”
Her tenth novel, The Blind Assassin, recipient of the 2000 Man Booker Prize—a prize for which she has received a record five nominations—was described by Newsday as "the first great novel of the new millennium." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called it "hauntingly powerful....A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters…so assured, so elegant, and so incandescently intelligent." Her work, crossing many subject lines and portraying strong female characters, has been published in 40 languages and also includes The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, The Robber Bride, and Alias Grace. She recently published a book of essays on science fiction entitled In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination.