Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories

Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories

by Margaret Atwood (Author)

Synopsis

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds...In these exceptional short stories, by turns funny and searingly honest, Margaret Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Jan 1997

ISBN 10: 0099741210
ISBN 13: 9780099741213
Book Overview: 'A novelist and poet of great gifts' - Guardian

Media Reviews
An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal, rum relationships between men and women The Times 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 wrting yet Daily Mail Sophisticated, reticent, ornate, stark, supple, stiff, savage or forgiving...they are stories from the prime of life Times Literary Supplement An outstanding correspondent on the war between the sexes writes as wittily as ever on the hopes and shortcomings of women who bake for poets, sleep with their accountants, attribute their preference for awful men to fearlessness, and don't know how much they scare their own mothers Observer
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 into 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.