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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Alright, an easy read but the story didn't really grab me. I like other books she has written. ( ) I very much enjoyed this book. I'm not always a fan of revenge stories but the miserable part of the story isn't dwelled on over much, the bulk focusing on the main character's new agenda. I'm the sort of reader that likes "brain candy," things like allusions or references to other works, literary devices, etc. This book has plenty, being a retelling of Shakespeare's the Tempest both within the book and as the book. I highly recommend it if you also like that sort of thing. "Hag-Seed" was my first foray into the Hogarth Shakesepeare series, but hardly my first encounter with Margaret Atwood, whose novels and poetry I enjoy. I am not the most loyal fan of Shakespeare's works, but this reimagining of "The Tempest" was quite clever, on the one hand, but, on the other, it not capture my undivided attention so I did not feel compelled to pick it up in every spare moment as I ordinarily do when reading a good book. I will chalk it up to the temporal demands of the holidays and hope that I fare better with other books in the series. This retelling of The Tempest has a brilliant central conceit—an outcast theater director revenges himself not with a tempest, but with The Tempest. The story that follows provides an interesting close reading of Shakespeare's play, but as a novel it failed to coalesce for me. Atwood is writing a wacky satire, so implausible plotting and static characters can be forgiven, but the storytelling felt flat. Maybe the constraint of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, with its requirement to stick somewhat closely to the source material, was the problem here. There were good moments, and I always enjoy reading Atwood's clever, accessible prose, but the whole didn't leave much of an impression.
While “Hag-Seed” is a book that’s great for a quick read, it doesn’t deliver the punches that the premises promise, making it an all-around mediocre book. Belongs to Publisher SeriesWas inspired byAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? No library descriptions found. |
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