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Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity (Paperback, 3 Rev Ed)
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Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity (Paperback, 3 Rev Ed)
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For every famous author there is a score of individuals working
behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status.
This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of
internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active
agents working in concert with her, including her assistants and
office staff, her publicists, her literary agents, and her editors.
Lorraine York explores the ways in which the careers of famous
writers are managed and maintained and the extent to which literary
celebrity creates a constant tension in these writers' lives
between the need of solitude for creative purposes and the
give-and-take of the business of being a writer of significant
public stature. Making extensive use of unpublished material in the
Margaret Atwood Papers at the University of Toronto, York
demonstrates the extent to which celebrity writers must embrace and
protect themselves from the demands of the literary world,
including by participating in - or even inventing - new forms of
technology that facilitate communication from a slight remove. This
informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which
literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity
and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among
professionals to help maintain the writer's place in the public
eye.
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