Dancing Girls: And Other Stories (Contemporary Classics) - Softcover

Atwood, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099741113 ISBN 13: 9780099741114

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1996

Synopsis

Pregnant women, students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are they?

About this title

From the Publisher:

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

From the Inside Flap:

This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Each of the fourteen stories shimmers with feelings, each illuminates the interior landscape of a woman's mind. Here men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms. different houses, or even different worlds. 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 and laughter, compassion and recognition--and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one on the most important writers in English today.

About this edition

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