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Dancing Girls and Other Stories (Contemporary Classics)

Dancing Girls and Other Stories (Contemporary Classics)

by Margaret Atwood (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $3.61

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    Paperback 1989

    $14.12
Synopsis

Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are they? In this splendid collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps the human motivation we scarcely know we have in a startlingly original voice, full of rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humour and unexpected violence, these stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who evoke laughter, compassion, terror and recognition and dramatically demonstrate why Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 19 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 0099741113
ISBN 13: 9780099741114
Book Overview: 'A remarkable collection' - Sunday Times

Media Reviews
An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal, rum relationships between men and women The Times The mind revealed in this collection of short stories is acutely perceptive, in love with language and capable of seeing significant connections between apparently disparate circumstances -- Sheila MacLeod Evening Standard If anyone has better insight into women and their central problem - men - than Margaret Atwood, and can voice them with as much wit, impact and grace, then they haven't started writing yet Daily Mail Margaret Atwood's stories are fierce parables about the horror of city life and the power politics of relationships. The fierceness filters insidiously through the leisurely realism of her domestic interiors, clothes, meals, weather... A remarkable collection -- Victoria Glendinning Sunday Times
Author Bio
Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale (winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a major film). Cat's Eye (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Finally, The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000. She lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson and their daughter.