"Torching the Dusties"

Title"Torching the Dusties"
Year for Search2014
AuthorsAtwood, Margaret [Eleanor](b. 1939)
Secondary TitleStone Mattress: Nine Tales
Pagination225-268
Date Published2015
PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
Place PublishedToronto, ON, Canada
ISBN Number978-0-771-00680-7 978-0-385-54912-8
KeywordsCanadian author, Female author
Annotation

The story is told from the perspective of an old, nearly blind woman living in Ambrosia Manor, a home for the wealthy aged, as protests by the Our Turn Movement erupt throughout the country. The  protests are against the old for despoiling the planet, hoarding its wealth, and living too long and, as a result, depriving the young of what they see as their birthright. On the whole, the authorities support the protesters, and such homes are being torched.

Additional Publishers

US ed. (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014), 225-268. 

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Author Note

Canadian female author (b. 1939)

Full Text

2014 Atwood, Margaret [Eleanor] (b. 1939). “Torching the Dusties.” In her Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2014), 225-268. US ed. (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014), 225-268. First publication. PSt

The story is told from the perspective of an old, nearly blind woman living in Ambrosia Manor, a home for the wealthy aged, as protests by the Our Turn Movement erupt throughout the country. The  protests are against the old for despoiling the planet, hoarding its wealth, and living too long and, as a result, depriving the young of what they see as their birthright. On the whole, the authorities support the protesters, and such homes are being torched. Canadian female author.