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In the Wake of the Flood

In the Wake of the Flood

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 2, 2010

Runtime

0h 47m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

In the Wake of the Flood

Production Companies

Sphinx Productions

Director

Ron Mann

Description

On the eve of her 70th birthday, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set out on an international tour criss-crossing the British Isles and North America to celebrate the publication of her new dystopian novel, The Year of the Flood. Rather than mount a traditional tour to promote a book's publication, Atwood conceived and executed something far more ambitious and revelatory--a theatrical version of her novel. Along the way she reinvented what a book tour could (and maybe should) be. But Atwood wasn't selling books as much as advocating an idea: how humanity must respond to the consequences of an environmentally compromised planet before her work of speculative fiction transforms into prophesy.