{"product_id":"a-better-tomorrow-a-memoir-of-sorts-by-margaret-atwood","title":"Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood","description":"\u003ch1 class=\"font-display first:mt-xs mb-2 mt-4 font-semimedium text-lg leading-[1.5em] lg:text-xl\" id=\"book-of-lives-a-memoir-of-sorts-by-margaret-atwood\"\u003eBook of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eRaised in the wild forests of northern Quebec by scientifically minded parents, Margaret Atwood spent much of her childhood in a world of trees, insects and silence—a vast, unfettered playground for her entomologist father and fiercely resourceful mother. It was a nomadic and sometimes isolated upbringing, but also thrilling and beautiful, and it set the imaginative foundations for one of the most remarkable literary careers of our age. From these early years, Atwood began to understand that every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBook of Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, Atwood unfolds the story of her life by tracing the intricate connections between lived experience and the books that have shaped our literary landscape. A cruel school year becomes the seed of \u003cem\u003eCat's Eye\u003c\/em\u003e; the unease of 1980s Berlin gives rise to \u003cem\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e. Along the way, the pages teem with the natural world, with reading and books, with major political turning points and with her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson. We meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars and larger-than-life figures who could have stepped straight from an Atwood novel, as she reflects on how real life and art continually refract one another. As Ali Smith puts it, Atwood has “taken our times and made us wise to them”; here, in an expansive, intimate memoir “of sorts”, she invites readers inside the workings of one of our boldest imaginations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Literary Cat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52865288470792,"sku":"9781784744496","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/7688\/0392\/files\/9781784744496.jpg?v=1764019714","url":"https:\/\/literarycatbooks.myshopify.com\/products\/a-better-tomorrow-a-memoir-of-sorts-by-margaret-atwood","provider":"Literary Cat Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}