Bluebeard's egg
By: Margaret Atwood.
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Description: In this acclaimed collection of twelve stories, Margaret Atwood probes the territory of childhood memories and the casual cruelty men and women inflict upon each other and themselves. She looks behind the familiar world of family summers at remote lakes, ordinary lives, and unexpected loves, and she unearths profound truths. A melancholy, teenage love is swept away by a Canadian hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds; a potter tries to come to terms with the group of poets who so smother her that she is driven into the arms of her accountant; and, in the title story, the Bluebeard legend is retold as an ironic tale of marital deception. Stark and scathing at times, humorous and compassionate at others, Bluebeards Egg confirms once again Atwoods reputation as the pre-eminent chronicler of our times.
Table of contents: title: Significant moments in the life of my mother; title: Hurricane Hazel; title: Loulou, or, The domestic life of the language; title: Uglypuss; title: Betty; title: Bluebeard's egg; title: Spring song of the frogs; title: Scarlet Ibis; title: The salt garden; title: The sin eater; title: The sunrise; title: Unearthing suite.