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Born in Suffolk in 1803, Susanna Moodie was already a successful creative writer when her family emigrated to Canada in 1832 and adjusting to life in the backwoods was hard. Susannas book Roughing It in the Bush (1852) was Margaret Atwoods inspiration for this illustrated book, a collaboration between poet and artist. The book was originally published in a limited edition in 1980; this facsimile edition includes a memoir by the artist, Charles Pachter. Slipcased. Off-mint.
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The poetic/artistic exploration of what it means to find yourself thrown into a hostile environment, these poems by Margaret Atwood and silk-screen illustrations by Charles Pachter are based on the journals of Canadian pioneer Susanna Moodie. The setting allows Atwood to write cutting lines about the fundamental tensions in creating and defining a self. One such tension, the assertion of will on the world as well as on one's self, set against the spirit-crushing tribulations of loneliness and hopelessness, is especially electric. The Journals of Susanna Moodie is a beautiful and hypnotic book.
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The landmark collaboration of two pre-eminent Canadian artists in an attractive, affordable format.
As fledgling artists in their respective fields, Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter were enthusiastic collaborators in a unique art form, the livre d'artiste ? the marriage of original graphic work with literary text. Beginning in the mid-sixties, while both were still students, they worked together on five limited-edition handmade books, volumes of Atwood?s poetry with Pachter?s interpretive artwork. The culmination of their collaboration, the work that is considered their masterpiece, is The Journals of Susanna Moodie. In her reading of Susanna Moodie?s chronicles of pioneer life in nineteenth-century Canada, Atwood found the haunting and timeless themes that still obsess us.
The poems of The Journals of Susanna Moodie were first published in 1970 in a standard format. This sequence of poems is regarded as a classic, in addition to being connected with her later novel, Alias Grace. In 1980, Pachter was able to add his own vibrant, evocative images and create the version they had dreamt of: a hand-set, hand-printed illustrated limited edition of 120 numbered copies.
This popular edition is a faithful re-creation of the original, accompanied by an introductory memoir by Pachter, describing his friendship with Atwood and the creative process behind this breathtaking work, and a foreword by David Staines, who pays homage to Atwood, Pachter, and Moodie and their central places in our art and literature.
As fledgling artists in their respective fields, Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter were enthusiastic collaborators in a unique art form, the livre d'artiste ? the marriage of original graphic work with literary text. Beginning in the mid-sixties, while both were still students, they worked together on five limited-edition handmade books, volumes of Atwood?s poetry with Pachter?s interpretive artwork. The culmination of their collaboration, the work that is considered their masterpiece, is The Journals of Susanna Moodie. In her reading of Susanna Moodie?s chronicles of pioneer life in nineteenth-century Canada, Atwood found the haunting and timeless themes that still obsess us.
The poems of The Journals of Susanna Moodie were first published in 1970 in a standard format. This sequence of poems is regarded as a classic, in addition to being connected with her later novel, Alias Grace. In 1980, Pachter was able to add his own vibrant, evocative images and create the version they had dreamt of: a hand-set, hand-printed illustrated limited edition of 120 numbered copies.
This popular edition is a faithful re-creation of the original, accompanied by an introductory memoir by Pachter, describing his friendship with Atwood and the creative process behind this breathtaking work, and a foreword by David Staines, who pays homage to Atwood, Pachter, and Moodie and their central places in our art and literature.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0747537216
- ISBN 13 9780747537212
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages72
- IllustratorPachter Charles
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Pachter, Charles (illustrator). FIRST THUS. IN SLIPCASE WHICH IS VG+.FACSIMILE OF THE 1980 LIMITED EDITION.TIGHT CLEAN HANDSOME COPY.SPINE SLIGHTLY DULLED.ORIGINAL LIGHT CARDBOARD PRINTED SLIPCASE IS SOLID CLEAN AND BRIGHT. Seller Inventory # 035898
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Pachter, Charles (illustrator). Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de ce livre à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations. Seller Inventory # C-409-905
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Book Description Pachter, Charles (illustrator). New Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth, with an equally fine, decorated slipcase. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new Physical description; xxiii, [70] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes; At head of title: Margaret Atwood, Charles Pachter. Originally published without memoir and foreword : 1980. This edition first published in Great Britain 1997. Subjects; Moodie, Susanna 1803-1885 Poetry. Frontier and pioneer life Canada ; Poetry. Women authors, Canadian ; Poetry. Women pioneers Canada ; Poetry. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 408327
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Pachter, Charles (illustrator). Margaret Atwood?s inspiration for this collection of poems was Susanna Moodie?s <i>Roughing it in the Bush</i>, in which the Suffolk-born writer recorded her life as a settler in the Canadian backwoods in the 1830s. Covering Moodie?s arrival in the country, her move to Belleville and her later years, the poems were published in a limited edition in 1980 with illustrations by Charles Pachter. This facsimile edition includes a memoir by Pachter. Slipcased. Off-mint. Seller Inventory # 225458
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Pachter, Charles (illustrator). 1st Edition. A reproduction of the poetry and serigraphs of the original 1980 hand-printed, limited edition (120 copies). Hardcover published by Macfarlane Walter and Ross, Toronto, 1997. First Edition Thus. Book is presented as 'a livre d'artiste' a collaborative art form by Atwood and Pachter, based on the pioneer journal by Susanna Moodie. Moodie was one of the best known of Canada's early pioneers, and wrote Roughing it in the bush, and Life in the clearings versus the bush. Atwood was fascinated by the thoughts and feelings that Moodie seemed to have left unsaid in her work. Condition like new. Clean No Highlights Or Remarks Inside. Unpaginated with a clear, see through dust jacket. A little sticker residue to a corner of the front cover of the clear jacket. Else, great. Seller Inventory # 10491
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