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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100553378600

ISBN-139780553378603

eBay Product ID (ePID)827181

Product Key Features

Book TitleBluebeard's Egg

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1996

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), General, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorMargaret Atwood

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-018610

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"A champion of Canadian literature...A startlingly original voice." --Washington Post Book World "Atwood appears to challenge both her readers and the outside limits of her own talent...Writing at top form, writing with total control of her material, with sureness, with touches of brilliance...Bluebeard's Egg is a book to be read and re-read, to be talked about and savored." --London (Ontario) Free Press "Margaret Atwood conceals the kick of a perfume bottle converted into a Molotov cocktail." --Melvin Maddocks "Atwood's prose in Bluebeard's Egg is powerful, elegant and mellifluous to an extraordinary degree." --Quill and Quire From the Trade Paperback edition., "A champion of Canadian literature...A startlingly original voice." --Washington Post Book World "Atwood appears to challenge both her readers and the outside limits of her own talent...Writing at top form, writing with total control of her material, with sureness, with touches of brilliance...Bluebeard's Eggis a book to be read and re-read, to be talked about and savored." --London (Ontario) Free Press "Margaret Atwood conceals the kick of a perfume bottle converted into a Molotov cocktail." --Melvin Maddocks "Atwood's prose inBluebeard's Eggis powerful, elegant and mellifluous to an extraordinary degree." --Quill and Quire

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisBy turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening,Bluebeard's Egginfuses 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 summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mudane lives and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them--the intimately personal, the fantastic and the shockingly real...whether it's what lies in a mysterious locked room or in the secret feelings we all conceal. From the Paperback edition., By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening,Bluebeard's Egginfuses 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 summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mudane lives and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them--the intimately personal, the fantastic and the shockingly real...whether it's what lies in a mysterious locked room or in the secret feelings we all conceal. From the Paperback edition.

LC Classification NumberPR9199.3.A8B58 1997