Dancing Girls - Softcover

Atwood, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385491093 ISBN 13: 9780385491099

Publisher: Anchor, 1998

Synopsis

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale

This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood’s bracing honesty and startlingly original voice. In her hands, ordinary people—farmers, birdwatchers, adolescent lovers, elderly neighbors, pregnant women—are anything but ordinary. A poet waylaid by an epic nosebleed; an awkward student trailed by an obtuse stalker; a jaded travel writer stranded on a life raft, finally facing a situation she can’t trivialize: these characters touch us deeply, evoking laughter, terror, and compassion. Punctuated by brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and occasional violence, Dancing Girls pays tribute to the sheer variety and complexity of human relationships.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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

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

"Margaret Atwood renders visual, aural, and tactile events in such crisp, surprising language that her images crackle off the page."
--Washington Post

"Illumine[s] areas of the human condition few writers have witnessed with such intelligence and sympathy."
--Boston Globe

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. Her 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 of the most important writers in English today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385491093
• ISBN 13: 9780385491099
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256