Dancing girls and other stories

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Title:

Author:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

ISBN:

9780099744917

9780099741114

Personal Author:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

240 pages

Series:

Contemporary classics.

General Note:

Reduced in size from another Vintage edition published the same year.

Contents:

The man from Mars -- Betty -- Polarities -- Under glass -- The grave of the famous poet -- Hair Jewellery -- When it happens -- A travel piece -- The resplendent quitzal -- Training -- Lives of the poets -- Dancing girls -- The sin eater -- Giving birth.

Geographic Term:

Canada -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Copies:

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Summary

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.

Summary

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.