| Description |
xxvii, 219 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Into the labyrinth -- Prologue -- Orientation: who do you think you are? (What is "a writer," and how did I become one?) -- Duplicity: the jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double (Why there are always two) -- Dedication: The great god pen (Apollo vs. Mammon: at whose altar should the writer worship?) -- Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & co. (Who waves the wand, pulls the strings, or signs the Devil's book?) -- Communion: nobody to nobody (the eternal triangle: the writer, the reader, and the book as go-between) -- Descent: Negotiating with the dead (Who makes the trip to the Underworld, and why?) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-207) and index. |
| Subject |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Authorship.
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Fiction -- Authorship.
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Authorship.
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| ISBN |
0521662605 |
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