Bluebeard's Egg Stories

by ATWOOD, MARGARET

• ISBN13: 9780385491044
• ISBN10: 0385491042
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-20
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening,Bluebeard'S Eggglows with childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty 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, mundane 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, the shockingly real...whether it's what lives in a mysterious locked room or the secret feelings we all conceal. In this dramatic and far-ranging collection, Margaret Atwood proves why she is a true master of the genre.

Author Biography

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1969), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. A book of short stories called Stone Mattress: Nine Tales was published in 2014. Her novel, MaddAddam (2013), is the final volume in a three-book series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short fiction) both appeared in 2006. A volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, a collection of non-fiction essays appeared in 2011. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was adapted for the screen in 2012. Ms. Atwood’s work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.
Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
www.margaretatwood.ca

Table of Contents

Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother	1	(17)
Hurricane Hazel	18	(26)
Loulou; or, The Domestic Life of the Language	44	(19)
Uglypuss	63	(26)
Betty	89	(20)
Bluebeard's Egg	109	(30)
Spring Song of the Frogs	139	(13)
Scarlet Ibis	152	(19)
The Salt Garden	171	(24)
The Sin Eater	195	(13)
The Sunrise	208	(19)
Unearthing Suite	227