{"product_id":"9781529114980","title":"Margaret Atwood - Burning Questions Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Margaret Atwood. Themes include History, Modern, 21st Century, Essays, Literary Collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling collection of funny, endlessly curious and uncannily prescient essays from cultural icon Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In it she seeks answers to Burning Questions such as-\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?\u003cbr\u003e How can we live on our planet?\u003cbr\u003e What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBurning Questions\u003c\/i\u003e Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer- only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIncludes New Essays For Paperback\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Brilliant and funny' \u003cb\u003eJoan Didion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' \u003cb\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Lights a fire from the fears of our age . . . Miraculously balances humor, outrage, and beauty' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'All over the reading world, the history books are being opened to the next blank page and Atwood's name is written at the top of it\u003cb\u003e' Anne Enright,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'The outstanding novelist of our age' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58530982166902,"sku":null,"price":8.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9781529114980.jpg?v=1787587934","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9781529114980","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}