Hag-seed : William Shakespeare's The tempest retold / Margaret Atwood.
Material type: TextSeries: Hogarth ShakespearePublication details: Toronto, Ontario : Vintage Canada, 2017.Edition: Vintage Canada editionDescription: xi, 293 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 0099594021
- 9780099594024
- 813.ATW
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The 'riotous, insanely readable' ( Observer ) retelling of The Tempest from the 2019 Booker Prize-winning author of THE TESTAMENTS .
' Riotous, insanely readable and just the best fun...' Observer
Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost his reputation. It will heal emotional wounds.
Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. Also brewing revenge.
After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017**
Vintage Canada edition, 2017--Title page verso.
Published by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House Canada Limited, in 2017. Originally published in hardcover by Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, in 2016--Title page verso.
A reader\'s guide--Pages 302-303.
Our greatest literary innovator and beloved novelist has reimagined Shakespeare\'s final, great play of magic and illusion. Entertaining, gripping, emotionally rich and wise, Hag-Seed is an homage to a master, positioned for the fall celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the Bard\'s death. \'It\'s got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.\' Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he\'s staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his motley crew of inmate actors will put on his Tempest, and snare the traitors who destroyed him. But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?-- Provided by publisher.
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She received a B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1961 and an M.A. from Radcliff College in 1962.Her first book of verse, Double Persephone, was published in 1961 and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal. She has published numerous books of poetry, novels, story collections, critical work, juvenile work, and radio and teleplays. Her works include The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Power Politics, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Morning in the Buried House, the MaddAdam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last. She has won numerous awards including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, the Giller Prize and the Premio Mondello for Alias Grace, and the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game and in 1986 for The Handmaid's Tale, which also won the very first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. She won the PEN Pinter prize in 2016 for her political activism. She was awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize for the outstanding literary merit of her body of work.
(Bowker Author Biography)