Bluebeard's Egg: Stories by Margaret Atwood (English) Paperback Book

Description: Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, "Bluebeard'S Egg glows with childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mundane lives, and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them-the intimately personal, the fantastic, the shockingly real...whether it's what lives in a mysterious locked room or the secret feelings we all conceal. In this dramatic and far-ranging collection, Margaret Atwood proves why she is a true master of the genre. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description By turns humorous and warm, stark and poignant, these stories from the bestselling author of The Handmaids Tale and The Testaments probe childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women can inflict on one another. A tenuous teenage love affair fails to survive a hurricane; a man notices the women around him becoming progressively paler and smaller; a surgeon who specializes in hearts seems oddly emotionally opaque to his wife; a middle-aged couples waning affection rekindles at the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds. In these exceptional short stories, Margaret Atwood proves herself once again a true master of the form. Author Biography Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cats Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaids Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Review "A book to be read and re-read, to be talked about and savored. . . . Atwood [is] writing at top form, writing with total control of her material, with sureness, with touches of brilliance." —The London Free Press"This collection . . . attests, again, to Ms. Atwoods range as a writer, her ability to set forth her view of the world . . . in both lyrical, meditative tales and wry, crackly satires. . . . These stories are strewn, like a starry sky, with shimmering images and bright metaphors." —The New York Times "A startlingly original voice." —Washington Post Book World"Atwoods prose in Bluebeards Egg is powerful, elegant and mellifluous to an extraordinary degree." —Quill and Quire Review Quote "A champion of Canadian literature...A startlingly original voice." --Washington Post Book World "Atwood appears to challenge both her readers and the outside limits of her own talent...Writing at top form, writing with total control of her material, with sureness, with touches of brilliance...Bluebeards Egg is a book to be read and re-read, to be talked about and savored." --London (Ontario) Free Press "Margaret Atwood conceals the kick of a perfume bottle converted into a Molotov cocktail." --Melvin Maddocks "Atwoods prose in Bluebeards Egg is powerful, elegant and mellifluous to an extraordinary degree." --Quill and Quire Details ISBN0385491042 Author Margaret Atwood Short Title BLUEBEARDS EGG Pages 256 Language English ISBN-10 0385491042 ISBN-13 9780385491044 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 1998 Residence Toronto, -CN Birth 1939 Subtitle Stories DOI 10.1604/9780385491044 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 1998-01-20 NZ Release Date 1998-01-20 US Release Date 1998-01-20 UK Release Date 1998-01-20 Place of Publication New York Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 1998-01-20 Imprint Anchor Books Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137915968;

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