Margaret Atwood will visit Atlanta on February 23 to discuss her latest novel, The Year of the Flood
in 2000. She has been on the short list for that prize five times since her breakthrough 1986 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. She also was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and 2007. It isn’t a stretch to imagine that her latest, The Year of the Flood, will make the 2010 short list when that is announced this summer (and surely repeated here).
The Year of the Flood focuses on a group called God’s Gardeners, a small community of survivors of the same environmental catastrophe depicted in Oryx and Crake
Ms. Atwood’s lecture is Tuesday, Feb. 23, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at SCAD Atlanta (Events Space, Fourth floor, Building C).
I read The Handmaid’s Tale years ago. Great book and definitely difficult to appreciate with just one read. It would be interesting to get a first hand account of today’s lecture, if possible.