The Tent "Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative, vintage Atwoodian mini-fictions speak on a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision. In pieces ranging in length from a mere paragraph to several pages, Atwood gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; gives us Horatio's real views on Hamlet; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. “Bring Back Mom: An Invocation” explores what life was really like for the “perfect” homemakers of days gone by, and in “The Animals Reject Their Names,” she runs history backward, with surprising results."  —The Publisher. Home Biography Novels Short Fiction Poetry Site Awards Excerpts from The Tent "Why the hunger for these? If it is a hunger." - Nan A. Talese Book Reviews The San Francisco Chronicle, 2006 The Guardian, 2006 The Observer, 2006 The Spectator, 2006 The London Free Press, 2006 Quill and Quire, 2006 The Christian Science Monitor, 2006 to Margaret Atwood's Short Stories to Margaret Atwood Luminarium Copyright ©1996-2007 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Book cover images remain under the copyright of their respective copyright owners. This page created on December 18, 2006 by Anniina Jokinen. Last updated January 3, 2007. About this Website | Luminarium Privacy Statement. Margaret Atwood has gone on to become not just a major Canadian Writer, and a woman writer (whom some would call a Feminist Writer), but an award-winning author of English literature. Her works include novels, short stories, poetry, etc.