Good Bones Edition Uk [Hardcover]

Margaret Atwood (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1992

This is a collection of pieces, meditations, flights of imagination and fantasy, honing in on Shakespeare, bats, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies, male and female, the future theology, amongst other matters. Other work by the author includes "The Handmaids Tale" and "Wilderness Tips".

Editorial Reviews

Review

'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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 30 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize. Oryx and Crake was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003. Her other books for children include Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda and Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square; 1ST edition (October 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0747513317
• ISBN-13: 978-0747513315
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,045,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in over thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; and her most recent, Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Short snippets of Atwood's glorious style, June 12, 2003

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Mrs. X. Zhang (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Bones (Paperback)

Some days, you simply don't have the attention span required of you for reading good books. Sometimes, I find even short stories too taxing and poetry much too dense to absorb properly. That's when Good Bones will come in handy, for it will provide doses of short, potent prose.

It's a tiny little book, with tiny short stories (three or four pages on average) that are clever, intriguing and shot through with Margaret Atwood's luscious style. Despite the lengths of the stories, they are in no way lacking in emotion or intensity. They are snippets of random musings, of well-known stories told from somebody else's point of view, of sci-fi fantasies that reflect upon our own humanity...

The stories do not link to each other. As far as I can see, they are writing experiments, little flashes of inspiration that do not fit somewhere in a greater whole (such as a novel). They are ideas, brief contemplation of how the world is, snapshots of human behaviour.

Atwood has a particularly cutting insight into the way things are. I cried at certain stories, not because they were formulated with particular tragic scenes, but because they moved me. Forlorn beauty, half-remembered sensations, the things she could say with a stroke of a pen are those dark, shadowy feelings we sometimes find in ourselves, yet could never describe. Now she has done it for us, and it makes for cathartic reading.

Through Good Bones we are given a glimpse of Atwood's world: usually bleak, sometimes spine-chilling with its prediction of how the world just might turn out, but always haunting and always beautiful. If you have not read any of her works before, this is a great place to start. If you have read and enjoyed her other works, this one will definitely be worth your while.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Bones, April 22, 2011

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Markus Van Der Riet (Pretoria, Gauteng, ZA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good Bones (Kindle Edition)

Cannot rview Margaret Atwood's writing because I quit reading it after the second page. There is no table of contents so you cannot select any particular story. The paragraphs are seperated by about 4 or 5 empty lines causing each page to have far less lines than it should. This was a waste of money.