Margaret Atwood's On Writers and Writing

#ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial:https://mediabooks.space/il-3902/Title: On Writers and Writing Author: Margaret Atwood Narrator: Margaret Atwood Format: mp3 Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins Release date: 11-18-20 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 241 ratings Genres: Authors Publisher's Summary: What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?