The Journals of Susanna Moodie - Hardcover

Margaret Atwood

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1551990601 ISBN 13: 9781551990606

Publisher: MacFarlane Walter & Ross, 1997

Synopsis

Rare book

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Review

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.

About the Author

Charles Pachter is one of Canada's leading contemporary artists. He is an award-winning painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. His canvases hang in public and private collections around the world, and in the McMichael Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is the author of two children's books, M is for Moose: A Charles Pachter Alphabet (winner of the IODE Book Award, nominated for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Illustrated Book Award and the Canadian Booksellers Association's Libris Award) and Canada Counts: A Charles Pachter Counting Book. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He lives in Toronto.

Margaret Atwood has published 17 books of poetry. Her first poetry book, The Circle Game, was typeset and illustrated by Charles Pachter (Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1964) prior to publication and won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 1966. She has collaborated with Charles Pachter on several projects, all of which have been published in limited editions. Her work has been published in more than 22 languages in more than 30 countries, and includes 7 collections of short stories, 13 novels, 12 works of non-fiction, and 8 children’s books. She is the recipient of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (The Handmaid’s Tale, 1986), the Scotiabank Giller Prize (Alias Grace, 1996), and the Man Booker Prize (The Blind Assassin, 2000), among many other awards and prizes. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada and lives in Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: MacFarlane Walter & Ross
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1551990601
• ISBN 13: 9781551990606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96