Second Words: Sel Critical Prose

Now Available For The First Time To A U.s. Audience, This Outstanding Collection Of Fifty Essays Spans Twenty Years Of Margaret Atwood's Work--years That Produced The Novels Lady Oracle, Surfacing, Life Before Man, And Bodily Harm; Survival, A Ground-breaking Study Of Canadian Writers; And Several Volumes Of Poetry And Short Fiction. Second Words Includes Selections On Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Erica Jong, Nadine Gordimer, E.l. Doctorow, And Mordecai Richler; The Craft Of Writing; Human Rights; The Women's Movement; And Being A Canadian, A Woman, And A Writer. Each Essay Reveals An Intelligence That Is Always Reaching Beyond Itself.--back Cover. Margaret Atwood. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.