Author: ATWOOD, MARGARET
Title: Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Description: Toronto, Anansi. 1972, 1st Pbk Edition. (ISBN: 0887846130) Trade Paperback. Book, "The most startling book ever written about Canadian literature.It is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is "survival and victims." Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives.287p. Neat,tight unmarked, copy, paper slightly age toned. Very Good +.

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