Qui est l'autrice de la mythique Servante écarlate ? Dans Le Livre des vies, Margaret Atwood se dévoile pour la première fois, racontant de son enfance à aujourd'hui son extraordinaire parcours. La principale source d'inspiration de Margaret Atwood se trouve dans les événements qui ont jalonné une vie téméraire, depuis la petite fille vivant dans les forêts du Québec jusqu'à l'autrice devenue une icône mondiale de la lutte pour les droits des femmes. Au fil des pages, ce n'est pas une vie, mais toutes ses vies qui se succèdent, dans un tourbillon mêlant souvenirs personnels, réflexions politiques et littéraires. Plongez dans les coulisses et dans l'imaginaire de l'une des plus grandes autrices et consciences de notre temps !

How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures. 'Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they are not the same.' Raised by ruggedly independent, scientifically minded parents - entomologist father, dietician mother - Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec. This childhood was unfettered and nomadic, sometimes isolated (on her eighth birthday: 'It sounds forlorn. It was forlorn. It gets more forlorn.'), but also thrilling and beautiful. From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel year that spawned Cat's Eye to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote The Handmaid's Tale. In pages bursting with bohemian gatherings, her magical life with the wildly charismatic writer Graeme Gibson and major political turning points, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood actors and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel. As we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art - and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.