These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare,tree stumps,ecological disasters,bodies (male and female),and theology,amongst other matters. We hear Gertrude's version of what really happened in Hamlet; an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves,and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong. Good Bones is pure distilled Atwood - deliciously strong and bittersweet.'A marvellous miniature sample case of Atwood's sensuous and sardonic talents'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781844086924Number of pages: 160Weight: 130 gDimensions: 197 x 129 x 11 mm
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A marvellous miniature sample case of Atwood's sensuous and sardonic talents TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Savagely hilarous THE LIST Her wit and humour are perfectly complemented by a penetrating eye for the false and absurd THE SUNDAY TIMES Full of fun and invention,with an edge that cuts through preconceptions...an entertaining sampler of Atwood's cleverness and imagination NICOLETTE JONES,INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Margaret Atwood
Widely regarded as one of the world's leading writers,Margaret Atwood is an author,essayist,poet and activist whose inventive and diverse literary output ranges widely and deeply from feminist classics such as The Handmaid's Taleto complex blends of Science Fiction and reality such as her Man Booker Prize winning novel The Blind Assassin and chilling dystopian visions like Oryx and Crake.
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