BLUEBEARD'S EGG and other stories (First UK edition - first impression)

Margaret Atwood

ISBN 10: 0224022458 / ISBN 13: 9780224022453

Edité par Jonathan Cape, Thirty-two Bedford Square, London, 1987

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First printing of the first UK edition. The author's third published book of short stories. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Tail of spine just slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean but tanned as usual. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean but heavily tanned as usual (cheap paper stock used). No foxing. No creases or tears. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £10.95 net. The dustwrapper is complete, with no chips, tears or creases. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***281 pages. 224mm x 145mm. ***'***'By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, "Bluebeard's Egg" glows with childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mundane lives, and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them - the intimately personal, the fantastic, the shockingly real. Whether it's what lives in a mysterious locked room or the secret feelings we all conceal.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'"Bluebeard's Egg" is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published in 1983. The book's first American edition was released in 1986 under the name "Bluebeard's Egg and other stories". In this collection, Atwood explores the politics of sex and heterosexual relationships, examining the emotions, betrayals, and casualties of such relationships. Four of the stories in the collection depart from this theme to instead present presumably autobiographic ruminations on the narrator's childhood influences. The majority of these stories are set in downtown Toronto.' (Wiki) ***First printing of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in near fine, bright condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: BLUEBEARD'S EGG and other stories (First UK edition - first impression)
• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape, Thirty-two Bedford Square, London
• Date de parution: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0224022458
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780224022453
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Diana Overton (Jacket design)
• Édition: First UK Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature
  • First Editions

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Synopsis

A collection of stories on the relationships between men and women.

Biographie de l'auteur

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1969), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. A book of short stories called Stone Mattress: Nine Tales was published in 2014. Her novel, MaddAddam (2013), is the final volume in a three-book series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short fiction) both appeared in 2006. A volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, a collection of non-fiction essays appeared in 2011. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was adapted for the screen in 2012. Ms. Atwood’s work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.
Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
www.margaretatwood.ca