Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake, and The Blind Assassin, which won the Man Booker Prize. In 2008 she was awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 11:00am "The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood
A few weeks ago I went to see noted animal researcher and activist Jane Goodall speak. The presentation began with a long slideshow beamed onto an immense screen; images of Jane with everyone from Angelina Jolie to the Dalai Lama seemed to bring her closer to sainthood. When Dr. Goodall took the podium, she spoke eloquently and directly to a packed audience for over an hour without referring to notecards or using a TelePrompter; at one point, when the evening's emcee tried to cut her off so that audience questions could begin Goodall and her supporters nearly excommunicated him.
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