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    Dancing Girls

    Author Margaret Atwood
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    Knopf | Anchor
    On sale May 18, 1998 | 256 Pages | 9780385491099
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    This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror and laughter, compassion and recognition--and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today.
    © Ruven Afanador
    MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.

    Atwood has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to litera­ture. She lives in Toronto. View titles by Margaret Atwood
    “Sheer wizardry, a rich fusion of the ordinary experience made brilliant by symbol, image, and allusion.” —Los Angeles Times

    “Atwood renders visual, aural, and tactile events in such crisp, surprising language that her images crackle off the page.” —The Washington Post

    “A stunning collection. . . . Combine[s] superb control and selectivity with an almost rambunctious vitality.” —The New York Times Book Review

    "Superb control and selectivity, with an almost rambunctious vitality. . . . A stunning collection."
    --The New York Times Book Review

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    This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror and laughter, compassion and recognition--and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today.

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    © Ruven Afanador
    MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.

    Atwood has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to litera­ture. She lives in Toronto. View titles by Margaret Atwood

    Praise

    “Sheer wizardry, a rich fusion of the ordinary experience made brilliant by symbol, image, and allusion.” —Los Angeles Times

    “Atwood renders visual, aural, and tactile events in such crisp, surprising language that her images crackle off the page.” —The Washington Post

    “A stunning collection. . . . Combine[s] superb control and selectivity with an almost rambunctious vitality.” —The New York Times Book Review

    "Superb control and selectivity, with an almost rambunctious vitality. . . . A stunning collection."
    --The New York Times Book Review

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