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Surfacing
“The depth and complexity of Atwood’s critique of contemporary society are stunning.”
—Ms.
“It is excellent in so many ways that one cannot begin to do justice to it in a review. It has to be read and experienced.”
— Margaret Laurence, Quarry
“Margaret Atwood is one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late-twentieth century.”
—Vogue
“It is quite simply superb. … She writes with the ease of total acceptance, from right inside the culture, authenticating our experience, holding up a mirror so that the image we get back is not distorted by satire or made unreal by proselytizing … but real.”
—Maclean’s
“The sophistication of its telling, the power of observation and imagination make the book remarkable. … It’s a masterful encounter with the way we live now.”
—Whig-Standard (Kingston)
“In this disturbing book, Margaret Atwood has written a fascinating, sometimes frightening novel about our Canadian landscape, about our paranoia, about what we are and what we are becoming. … Astonishing.”
—Edmonton Journal
“ Surfacing is likely the best piece of fiction produced by Atwood’s generation in North America or anywhere.”
—Canadian Forum
“[Atwood is] a superb storyteller who brings intelligence and wit to bear in a compelling personal vision.”
—Toronto Star
BOOKS BY MARGARET ATWOOD
FICTION
The Edible Woman (1969)
Surfacing (1972)
Lady Oracle (1976)
Dancing Girls (1977)
Life Before Man (1979)
Bodily Harm (1981)
Murder in the Dark (1983)
Bluebeard’s Egg (1983)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Cat’s Eye (1988)
Wilderness Tips (1991)
Good Bones (1992)
The Robber Bride (1993)
Alias Grace (1996)
The Blind Assassin (2000)
Good Bones and Simple Murders (2001)
Oryx and Crake (2003)
The Penelopiad (2005)
The Tent (2006)
Moral Disorder (2006)
The Year of the Flood (2009)
FOR CHILDREN
Up in the Tree (1978)
Anna’s Pet (with Joyce Barkhouse) (1980)
For the Birds (1990)
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2004)
NON-FICTION
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Days of the Rebels 1815–1840 (1977)
Second Words (1982)
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1996)
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004 (2004)
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
POETRY
Double Persephone (1961)
The Circle Game (1966)
The Animals in That Country (1968)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
Procedures for Underground (1970)
Power Politics (1971)
You Are Happy (1974)
Selected Poems (1976)
Two-Headed Poems (1978)
True Stories (1981)
Interlunar (1984)
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976–1986 (1986)
Morning in the Burned House (1995)
The Door (2007)
Copyright © 1972 by O.W. Toad Ltd.
First cloth edition published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart in 1972
Emblem edition published in 1999
This Emblem edition published in 2010
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Atwood, Margaret, 1939–
Surfacing / Margaret Atwood.
First published: 1972.
eISBN: 978-1-55199-493-2
I. Title.
PS8501.T86S9 2010 C813′.54 C2010-902605-5
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