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Dancing Girls and Other Stories
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Dancing Girls and Other Stories Paperback - 1998

by Margaret Atwood


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Dancing Girls is Margaret Atwood's highly praised first collection of short fiction. In it she explores the dark intricacies of the mind, the complexities of human relationships, and the clashes between cultures. In the stories, the mundane and the bizarre intersect in unexpected ways: ex-wives indulge in an odd feast at a psychiatrist's funeral; a young student is pursued by an obsessed immigrant; an old woman stores up supplies against an impending cataclysm. The fourteen stories range in setting from Canada to England, from Mexico to the United States, and portray characters who touch us and arouse in us compassion and understanding. In this astonishing collection, Margaret Atwood maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.

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  • Title Dancing Girls and Other Stories
  • Author Margaret Atwood
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Emblem Editions, NY
  • Date 1998-10-03
  • ISBN 9780771008580 / 0771008589
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.25 x 0.5 in (21.08 x 13.34 x 1.27 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“A stunning collection”
The New York Times Book Review

“Margaret Atwood is a deeply serious writer who is also wildly funny.”
Chatelaine

“Deft, sardonic: quintessential Atwood.”
Globe and Mail

“Margaret Atwood’s stories are fierce parables about the horror of city life and the power politics of relationships.…A remarkable collection.”
–Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times (U.K.)


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About the author

MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include The Testaments, which was the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize; Cat's Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; The Heart Goes Last; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She lives in Toronto.
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Dancing Girls and Other Stories
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Dancing Girls and Other Stories

by Atwood, Margaret

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Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1998. Trade Paper. Very Good+. 0771008589; Tight, unmarked; light bump to upper front corner and upper back edge; otherwise absolute minimal shelfwear; appear unread; "These 14 stories, the mundane and the bizarre intersect in unexpected ways: ex-wives indulge in an odd feast at a psychiatrist's funeral; a young student is pursued by an obsessed immigrant; an old woman store up supplies against an impending cataclysm. "
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