The Canadian author’s latest novel recasts contemporary America in shaded comic termsIn recent years,Margaret Atwood – now in her mid-70s has effect many younger writers to shame with her enthusiastic early adopting of unusual technologies, and her latest book, and The Heart Goes final,began life as a series of four episodes on the digital-winning platform Byliner in 2012-13. Now expanded into a full-length novel, the story inhabits the kind of plausible dystopia familiar to admirers of Atwood’s brand of speculative fiction. It’s more overtly comic than her most recent books, or the MaddAddam trilogy,though it treats the same broad themes: economic and environmental decline, the social and bio-engineering we employ in the vain hope of saving ourselves, and the speed with which the most well-intentioned experiments plunge prey to greed and corruption.
If the level of emotional engagement feels superficial,Atwood compensates with pace and comic timingContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com