2 options
Good bones and simple murders / Margaret Atwood. Illustrated by the author.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.A8 G67 1994
Available
LIBRA - Special PR9199.3.A8 G67 1994
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 164 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London ; Toronto : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, [1994]
- Summary:
- In this compilation of short works that defy easy categorization, Margaret Atwood displays the trademark wit and virtuosity of her bestselling novels, brilliant stories, and insightful poetry. Among the miniatures gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet a piece of her mind, the real truth about the Little Red Hen, a reincarnated bat explaining how Bram Stoker got Dracula all wrong, and the five home-economist methods of making a man. There are parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fictions, reconfigured fairy tales, and other diminutive masterpieces -- punctuated with charming illustrations by the author.
- Contents:
- Murder in the dark
- Bad news
- Unpopular gals
- The little red hen tells all
- Gertrude talks back
- There was once
- Women's novels
- The boys' own annual
- Stump hunting
- Making a man
- Men at sea
- Simmering
- Happy endings
- Let us now praise stupid women
- The victory burlesk
- She
- The female body
- Cold-blooded
- Liking men
- In love with Raymond Chandler
- Simple murders
- Iconography
- Alien territory
- My life as a bat
- Hardball
- Bread
- Poppies: three variations
- Homelanding
- The page
- An angel
- Third handed
- Death scenes
- We want it all
- Dance of the lepers
- Good bones.
- Notes:
- "Published by Nan A. Talese an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.".
- "December 1994."
- "Cover illustration by Margaret Atwood."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0385471106 :
- OCLC:
- 30154317
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.