Event

Margaret Atwood at Town Hall Seattle

MARGARET ATWOOD Wednesday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle

Presented by THE ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY. One of the great writers at work in the world today whatever she writes, however she writes in various fiction forms, essays, poems, childrens books, Margaret Atwood makes this most welcome Seattle return this evening. She is here from her Toronto home with a haunting masterpiece of a new novel newly out, The Year of the Flood (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday). In her 2002 speculative novel, Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood depicted a dystopic planet tumbling toward apocalypse. The world she envisaged was in the throes of catastrophic climate change, its wealthy inhabitants dwelling in secure, sterile compounds, its poor ones in the dangerous pleeblands of decaying inner cities Like Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood begins just after the catastrophe and then tracks back in time over the corrupt and degenerate world that preceded it This is a gutsy and expansive novel, rich with ideas and conceits [hymns set in a liturgical year], but overall its more optimistic than Oryx and Crake .. Atwood commits herself to a dramatic and hopeful denouement thats in keeping with this novels spirit of redemption. Marcel Theroux, Publishers Weekly. A night not to be missed. $5 rickets are available at Elliott Bay, via www.brownpapertickets.com, or 1.800.838.3006 starting September 5. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at 206.624.6600.