Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's "Good Bones" and "Simple Murders" (published originally as "Murder in the Dark") are now available together in this beautiful one-vo
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lume collector's edition. This compilation is a concentrated burst of the trademark wit and virtuosity of Atwood's 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 five home-economist methods of making a man. Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fictions, reconfigured fairy tales, and other diminutive masterpieces, punctuated with charming illustrations by the author.
A feast of comic entertainment, "Good Bones and Simple Murders" is Atwood at her wittiest, most thoughtful, and most provoking.
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