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Originally published in 1983, Bluebeard's Egg is a sharp and funny collection of short stories by a master of the craft.
A tenuous teenage love affair fails to survive a hurricane. A man notices the women around him becoming progressively paler and smaller, literally. 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. And, in the title story, the Bluebear legend is retold as an ironic tale of marital deception.
With her signature wit and insight, Margaret Atwood expertly crafts stories that delve into the intricacies of the human condition and captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.
