Negotiation With the Dead A Writer on Writing

"While all this is well and lightly written, none of it is particularly original....The problem comes when she slips off into extended discussions about critical and literary issues which have long been done and dusted....By all accounts, when Atwood delivered the Empson Lectures back in 2000, she was a revelation. Her voice...was sardonic, amused, daring you not to take her too seriously. Unfortunately, translated onto the page, this 'voice' has lost its edge: not quite clever enough to make you see the world anew; not quite intimate enough to make you hear Margaret Atwood afresh."Atwood, Margaret is the author of 'Negotiation With the Dead A Writer on Writing', published 2003 under ISBN 9781400032600 and ISBN 1400032601.