{"product_id":"the-red-shoes-margaret-atwood-starting-out-1998","title":"The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cu data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eInternational award-winning and best-selling author, Canadian cultural icon, feminist role model, \"man-hater,\" wife, mother, private citizen and household name -- who is Margaret Atwood?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRosemary Sullivan, award-winning literary biographer, has penned \u003ci\u003eThe Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out\u003c\/i\u003e, the first portrait of Canada's most famous novelist, focusing on her childhood and formative years as a writer and the generation she grew up in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Margaret Atwood was a little girl in 1949, she saw a movie called\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Red Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e. It is the story of a beautiful young woman who becomes a famous ballerina, but commits suicide when she cannot satisfy one man, who wants her to devote her entire life to her art, and another who loves her, but subjugates her to become his muse and inspiration. She struggles to choose art, but the choice eventually destroys her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMargaret Atwood remembers being devastated by this movie but unlike many young girls of her time, she escaped its underlying message. Always sustained by a strong sense of self, Atwood would achieve a meteoric literary career. Yet a nurturing sense of self-confidence is just one fascinating side of our most famous literary figure, as examined in Rosemary Sullivan's latest biography. \u003ci\u003eThe Red Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis not a simple biography but a portrait of a complex, intriguing woman and her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRosemary Sullivan reveals the discrepancy between Atwood's cool, acerbic, public image and the down-to-earth, straight-dealing and generous woman who actually writes the books. Throughout, she weaves the issues of female creativity, authority and autonomy set against the backdrop of a generation of women coming of age during one of the most radically shifting times in contemporary history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosemary Sullivan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43229665755305,"sku":"9780002554237","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/atwood_bed8261d-80da-43ce-9fe5-b4e9e7e8441c.jpg?v=1694651668","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-red-shoes-margaret-atwood-starting-out-1998","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}