Bluebeard's Egg
Margaret Atwood“A book to be read and re-read, to be talked about and savoured... Atwood [is] writing at top form, writing with total control of her material, with sureness, with touches of brilliance.” — The London Free Press
A tenuous teenage love affair fails to survive a hurricane; a man notices the women around him becoming progressively paler and smaller; a surgeon who specializes in hearts seems oddly emotionally opaque to his wife; a middle-aged couple’s waning affection rekindles at the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds. In these exceptional short stories, Margaret Atwood proves herself once again a true master of the form.
“This collection... attests, again, to Ms Atwood’s range as a writer, her ability to set forth her view of the world... in both lyrical, meditative tales and wry, crackly satires... These stories are strewn, like a starry sky, with shimmering images and bright metaphors.” — The New York Times