The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to Palate : a Collection of Tasty Literary Fare

Margaret Atwood

Totem Books, 1987 - Aliments - Anthologies - 216 pages

Contents

• Christ of the Vegetables: 37
• Grapes: 43
• Strange Innuendoes Over the Cups: 59
• CONTENTS: 61
• Failure at: 70
• Fish Flesh and: 77
• CONTENTS GEORGE JOHNSTON: 80
• The Game Shop in Colmar: 86
• Evening Meals Both: 95
• Dinner in the Backwoods: 99
• ALICE MUNRO: 106
• Sugar and Vice and Everything Nice: 121
• CONTENTS: 125
• JOY KOGAWA: 131
• Things You: 141
• Reindeer Moss: 144
• Mountain Oysters: 150
• Cannibalism: 157
• Eat Kids Yum Yum: 160
• Preparation of Human Pie: 166
• Cocktail Parties Weddings: 173
• The Groaning Bored: 177
• JAMES POLK: 183
• AUDREY THOMAS: 189

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to Palate : a Collection of Tasty Literary Fare; A Totem book
• Editor: Margaret Atwood
• Compiled by: Margaret Atwood
• Illustrated by: Margaret Atwood
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Totem Books, 1987
• ISBN: 0002179083, 9780002179089
• Length: 216 pages