Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories (Contemporary Classics)

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman’s intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds…

In these exceptional short stories, by tu
s funny and searingly honest, Margaret Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that gove
our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.