Oct 7, 2009
Seattle, WA – 10/07/09 – Town Hall – Margaret Atwood
By: readinglocalseattle Categories: Events
| Who | Margaret Atwood |
| When |
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
7:30pm
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$5
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All Ages
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| Where |
1119 Eighth Avenue
Seattle, WA, USA 98101 Town Hall is Seattle's community culture center located in the historic First Hill neighborhood, on the edge of downtown. Town Hall showcases the community's cultural energy with diverse music, arts and humanities, civic discourse, and world culture programming. Housed in an historic Roman-revival-style building on the corner of 8th and Seneca, Town Hall opened in March 1999. Local, national and international programs and performances are scheduled year-round in the Great Hall and Downstairs at Town Hall. Please visit our calendar of events for a current listing of public events. Town Hall's name recalls town-meeting democracy and is emphasized by the intimate, curved, amphitheater-style seating of the Great Hall. Town Hall is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and relies on rentals, membership, volunteers, and fundraising to sustain its many activities. Town Hall is fully accessible. Assisted listening devices are available for events in the Great Hall upon request. |
| Other Info | One of the great writers at work in the world today—whatever she writes, however she writes—in various fiction forms, essays, poems, children's 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 it's more optimistic than Oryx and Crake ... Atwood commits herself to a dramatic and hopeful denouement that's in keeping with this novel's spirit of redemption." - Marcel Theroux, Publishers Weekly. Presented by Elliott Bay Book Co. |
