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"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 'Negotiating With the Dead A Writer on Writing' with ISBN 9780521662604 and ISBN 0521662605.
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