Six months ago, we were told that swine flu would kill us all. The H1N1 virus failed to destroy mankind (so far, at least), but this year’s looming flu season brings along with it Margaret Atwood’s ...
Margaret Atwood discusses her Maddaddam trilogy and other topics in an interview recorded in 2013, which has not been aired in over a decade. Walter Mosley talks about his various series, focusing on ...
Margaret Atwood thinks she has done something new: her novel takes place simultaneously with Oryx and Crake — her nightmare novel about the biotechnological… ...
NEW YORK – The cover of Margaret Atwood's memoir shows a close-up of the author holding up a finger to her mouth, a mischievous look in her eyes, as if to suggest a riddle or two: Is this a book in ...
Yahoo: We Ranked the Best Books By Margaret Atwood, From 'The Handmaid's Tale' to 'Alias Grace'
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'A year' can be any year without any specification. But 'the year' means a particular/specified year or the one which is already mentioned and thereby known. E.g: In a year there are twelve months. (means any year or all years) I was born in the year 2000. (in that particular year) Grammatically 'a/an' is known as indefinite article and 'the' is definite article. The indefinite article (a/an ...
The comparison with "the second year and the last year" supports plural rather than singular. In that "full" version, each occurrence of the word year clearly relates to a single year.