Dancing Girls and Other Stories - Softcover

Atwood, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099741113 ISBN 13: 9780099741114

Publisher: Vintage, 1996

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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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

'A remarkable collection' - Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0099741113
• ISBN 13: 9780099741114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240