Bluebeard's Egg: Stories

by Margaret Atwood

By turns humorous and warm, stark and poignant, these stories from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments probe childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women can inflict on one another.

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.

• ISBN10: 0385491042
• ISBN13: 9780385491044
• Publish Date: 20 January 1998 (first published 1 January 1983)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Anchor Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780385491044

Reviews

[Jennifer | Pushing Pages]

Technically, because I read the Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar, this was part of my lectures in the class I took with the aforementioned book assigned. But I just decided to go on a Bluebeard spree and find other related tales because I really enjoyed the collection of Bluebeard tales, and wanted to include a review this specifically. Bluebeard tales are definitely worth exploring.

Atwood's had one or two works that I wasn't a fan of, but the more I read from her the more I actually love her work.