{"product_id":"book-of-lives-by-margaret-atwood","title":"Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis title is a pre-order and will release\/ship on 11\/4\/25\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they are not the same.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRaised by ruggedly independent, scientifically minded parents – entomologist father, dietician mother – Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec. This childhood was unfettered and nomadic, sometimes isolated (on her eighth birthday: ‘It sounds forlorn. It was forlorn. It gets more forlorn.’), but also thrilling and beautiful.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel year that spawned \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCat’s Eye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In pages bursting with bohemian gatherings, her magical life with the wildly charismatic writer Graeme Gibson and major political turning points, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood actors and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KNOPF","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46476576489638,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/4637\/7638\/files\/Bookoflives.jpg?v=1751559192","url":"https:\/\/woollybearbooks.com\/products\/book-of-lives-by-margaret-atwood","provider":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}