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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Nan A. Talese
Price: $26.95
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MARGARET ATWOOD
reads from
The Year of the Flood
$25 tickets are on sale now
(proceeds from ticket sales will go to benefit a number of environmental organizations)
THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD EVENT is a unique combination of a book launch, a 70-minute dramatic reading, and a fund-raising event for a number of environmental organizations.
Margaret Atwood’s new novel, THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD, focuses on a group that appears in the background of Atwood’s 2003 novel, ORYX AND CRAKE: the God’s Gardeners, who attempt to reconcile religion, science, and nature. The piece begins in Gardener Year Twenty-five, when much of the human race has been obliterated in a man-made pandemic. Two women have survived: Toby, once a Gardener, is now hiding out in a luxury spa, and Ren, once a Gardener child, is walled up in a high-end sex club. From this point, we return to Year Five, with Adam One, the Gardener leader, and his small group of Gardeners, who live and garden on a slum roof-top, menaced not only by the criminal activities around them but by the official powers of the future – the CorpSeCorps, representing the combination corporations and government that now control society.
Margaret Atwood herself will play the Narrator, taking us from Year Twenty-Five back to Year Five, then forward in time.
THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD EVENT will premiere at the Edinburgh Festival on August 30. There will be 6 Events in England, 6 Events in Canada and 6 Events in the US.
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CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
Email:
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Sunday, October 25th |
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7:00 PM |
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First Parish Church Meetinghouse
On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Cambridge |
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$25 tickets are on sale now, and are available online at harvard.com; at Harvard Book Store; and over the phone with a credit card (617.661.1515). Please note that tickets are for admission only, and do not include a copy of Ms. Atwood's new book. Proceeds from ticket sales will go to benefit a number of environmental organizations.
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Margaret Atwood is a giant of modern literature who has anticipated, explored, satirized -- and even changed -- the popular preoccupations of our time. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, Atwood is the rare writer whose work is adored by the public, acclaimed by the critics, and studied on university campuses around the world. Though her subject matter varies, the precision crafting of her language -- she is also a renowned poet -- gives her body of work a sensibility entirely its own.
Based out of Toronto, Atwood has written over forty classic books, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Her novels include Alias Grace, Life Before Man, Oryx and Crake and 2008's Moral Disorder. Her major awards include The Giller and The Governor General's Award (Canada); The Booker Prize (UK); The Dashiell Hammett Award (United States); and the Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre de Arts et Les Lettres (France).
Photo Credit: Jim Allen
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