Dancing Girls and Other Stories

by Margaret Atwood

Overview

A splendid collection of short stories from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Handmaid’s Tale—the inspiration behind the award-winning Hulu original series.

Margaret Atwood brings her singular voice to this unforgettable volume of short stories filled with rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror, laughter, compassion and recognition—and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451686845
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	03/27/2012
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	21,302
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in over thirty-five countries, is the award-winning author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, which was made into a TV series, her novels include Cat's Eye, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake, and The Robber Bride. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once for The Blind Assassin. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

Hometown:

Toronto, Ontario

Date of Birth:

November 18, 1939

Place of Birth:

Ottawa, Ontario

Education:

B.A., University of Toronto, 1961; M.A. Radcliffe, 1962; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1967

Website:

http://www.owtoad.com

What People are Saying About This

Anatole Broyard

'Dancing Girls is not a cheerful book, yet there's hope in it. What it shows us is that, no matter how bad things get. . .human personality can always be counted on to come up with yet another symptom, another desperate piece of poetry. There's no end to us, even in our unhappiness. -- The New York Times

Editorial Reviews

Dancing Girls is not a cheerful book, yet there's hope in it. What it shows us is that, no matter how bad things get. . .human personality can always be counted on to come up with yet another symptom, another desperate piece of poetry. There's no end to us, even in our unhappiness.
—The New York Times

Anatole Broyard

Sheer wizardry, a rich fusion of the ordinary experience made brilliant by symbol, image, and allusion.” —Los Angeles Times

“Atwood renders visual, aural, and tactile events in such crisp, surprising language that her images crackle off the page.” —The Washington Post

“A stunning collection. . . . Combine[s] superb control and selectivity with an almost rambunctious vitality.” —The New York Times Book Review

"Superb control and selectivity, with an almost rambunctious vitality. . . . A stunning collection."
—The New York Times Book Review

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