The Labrador Fiasco
by Margaret Atwood
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To celebrate the first ten years of Bloomsbury publishing, ten of the world's finest writers have written a short story. These international tales, published individually, retail at one pound each, and are set to become collector's items.Tags
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This small book contains a story within a story. A woman reads to her husband, who has suffered from a stroke. She reads the same story over and over because he enjoys it so much. As the explorers in the story struggle with the harsh Labrador landscape, the present-day family watch the father/husband struggle with the inner landscape of his stroke-damaged memory. Very good and moving story.
Short story of only 41 small pages about the I-figure's mother reading a story to her husband who has had a stroke a few years ago. This is the umpteenth time she reads this story to him. It is about two men and an Indian going on an ill-fated exploration trip to Labrador taking the wrong supplies. Then the I-figure's father has another stroke knocking out his short-term memory. It is no use reading stories to him anymore. Beautiful and moving story.
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Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She received a B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1961 and an M.A. from Radcliff College in 1962. Her first book of verse, Double Persephone, was published in 1961 and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal. She has published numerous books of poetry, novels, story show more collections, critical work, juvenile work, and radio and teleplays. Her works include The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Power Politics, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Morning in the Buried House, the MaddAdam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last. She has won numerous awards including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, the Giller Prize and the Premio Mondello for Alias Grace, and the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game and in 1986 for The Handmaid's Tale, which also won the very first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. She won the PEN Pinter prize in 2016 for her political activism. She was awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize for the outstanding literary merit of her body of work. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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