Additional Resources for Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

Surfacing Further Reading

Blais, Marie-Clair, "Afterword," in Surfacing, Anchor Books, 1972.

Blais comments on the novel's themes and style.

Buxton, Jackie, "Atwood, Margaret (Eleanor)," in Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed., edited by Susan Windisch Brown, St. James Press, 1996, pp. 52-56.

Buxton offers a study of Surfacing's "powerful
mythic dimension."

Gibson, Graeme, "An Interview with Margaret Atwood," in Eleven Canadian Novelists, 1973.

In this interview, Atwood discusses the novel's
themes.