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Whoops! Totally forgot that Margaret Atwood's new book, Hag Seed, was launched yesterday.
Director Felix Phillips, the protagonist of Margaret Atwood�s Hag-Seed, is on top of Canada�s theatrical world when the novel opens. But his spendthrift and drama-queen ways, including a Macbeth production featuring chainsaws, have irritated his government and corporate masters, leaving him vulnerable to a coup plotted by his treacherous deputy. Distracted by grief at the deaths of his wife and daughter, and his Trump-sized self-absorption��I did make him a kind of a lunatic and control freak,� Atwood cheerfully allows�Felix never sees his downfall coming.
Soon fired as artistic director of a lightly disguised Stratford Festival�very lightly, given his surname is a nod to former Stratford director Robin Phillips�Felix flees to self-exile in a hermit-like cell in the truOntario countryside. There, he settles down to a prolonged stint of communing with his late daughter, Miranda. He broods on his injuries until, 12 years later, fortune offers a chance for revenge.
If it all sounds familiar, it�s supposed to. Hag-Seed is Atwood�s take on The Tempest, and her entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare project�celebrated authors �reimagining� the Bard�s plays in novel form. - from a McCleans In Depth interview
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Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood review � an inventive riff on The Tempest - The Guardian
Director Felix Phillips, the protagonist of Margaret Atwood�s Hag-Seed, is on top of Canada�s theatrical world when the novel opens. But his spendthrift and drama-queen ways, including a Macbeth production featuring chainsaws, have irritated his government and corporate masters, leaving him vulnerable to a coup plotted by his treacherous deputy. Distracted by grief at the deaths of his wife and daughter, and his Trump-sized self-absorption��I did make him a kind of a lunatic and control freak,� Atwood cheerfully allows�Felix never sees his downfall coming.
Soon fired as artistic director of a lightly disguised Stratford Festival�very lightly, given his surname is a nod to former Stratford director Robin Phillips�Felix flees to self-exile in a hermit-like cell in the truOntario countryside. There, he settles down to a prolonged stint of communing with his late daughter, Miranda. He broods on his injuries until, 12 years later, fortune offers a chance for revenge.
If it all sounds familiar, it�s supposed to. Hag-Seed is Atwood�s take on The Tempest, and her entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare project�celebrated authors �reimagining� the Bard�s plays in novel form. - from a McCleans In Depth interview
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Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood review � an inventive riff on The Tempest - The Guardian
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