Bluebeard's Egg: Stories
โ Scribed by Atwood, Margaret
- Book ID
- 108111273
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
In Atwood s second short story collection she covers a dramatic range, from the desolate to the hilarious. The stories concern themselves with relationships of various sorts. Among them are the bonds between a political activist and his kidnapped cat, a woman and her dead psychiatrist, a potter and a group of poets who live with her, and an artist and the men who are her models. By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, "Bluebeard's Egg" explores the world in which we live --and the one we create.
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By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard's Egg infuses a Canada of the 1940s, '50s and '80s with glowing childhood memories, the harsh realities of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty that men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family sum
Overview: Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.