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Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
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  • Published: 2 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446470770
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: Bonnie Hurren

Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories

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13 June 2023
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2 June 2011
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'A novelist and poet of great gifts' - Guardian

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds...

In these exceptional short stories, by turns funny and searingly honest, Margaret Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.
  • Published: 2 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446470770
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: Bonnie Hurren
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About the author

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She is the author of more than thirty works, which include fiction, poetry and critical essays. Oryx and Crake is her eleventh novel, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2003, as was The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's, and Alias Grace. Her novel, The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
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Praise for Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories

An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal, rum relationships between men and women

The Times

If anyone has better insight into women and their central problem - men - than Margaret Atwood, and can voice them with as much wit, impact and grace, then they haven't started writing yet

Daily Mail

Sophisticated, reticent, ornate, stark, supple, stiff, savage or forgiving...they are stories from the prime of life

Times Literary Supplement

An outstanding correspondent on the war between the sexes writes as wittily as ever on the hopes and shortcomings of women who bake for poets, sleep with their accountants, attribute their preference for awful men to fearlessness, and don't know how much they scare their own mothers

Observer

An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal, rum relationships between men and women

The Times

If anyone has better insight into women and their central problem - men - than Margaret Atwood, and can voice them with as much wit, impact and grace, then they haven't started wrting yet

Daily Mail

Sophisticated, reticent, ornate, stark, supple, stiff, savage or forgiving...they are stories from the prime of life

Times Literary Supplement

An outstanding correspondent on the war between the sexes writes as wittily as ever on the hopes and shortcomings of women who bake for poets, sleep with their accountants, attribute their preference for awful men to fearlessness, and don't know how much they scare their own mothers

Observer