Dancing Girls and Other Stories

by Margaret Atwood (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.45

  Pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers, birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are they?' Margaret Atwood's distinctive wit and incisive observation of the strangeness of everyday life makes this a delighfully absorbing collection of stories. She portrays each drama with tremendous agility that seems effortless, and makes it impossible to stop at the end of one story without dipping into the next.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.45

  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.