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 Murder in the Dark - Margaret Atwood
 Murder in the Dark - Margaret Atwood ... gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of 10 short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.Newest Review: ... memories rather than the boys: pink or red hand-made dresses with flared skirts. Section II contains just one piece entitled ... more ... 'Raw materials' which actually focuses on travelling. A persistant beggar encountered in a foreign land is so unnerving that he produces the reaction 'we've always gone for the real experience, but there's something to be said for package tours.'
In Section III, 'Simmering' is a witty piece focusing on the culinary traditions of a fictional society, where men gradually take control of kitchens, eventually resigning from their jobs to devote more time to cooking. 'The wives were all driven off to work, whether th...more |
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Murder in the Dark - Margaret Atwood: Little Gems from a Great Authoress (1227 words)
by - written on 11/12/06 (Very useful, 1065 readings)
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Having hungrily devoured several of Margaret Atwood's novels, from 'The Handmaid's Tale' through 'Surfacing' to 'Alias Grace', I was intrigued to see 'Murder in the Dark' described as a collection of 'short fictions and prose poems'. I make several long bus journeys a week, and if you're sandwiched between giggling schoolgirls and someone booming down their mobile phone while the guy at the back is singing along to Alice Cooper on his ipod, it's not an atmosphere conducive to getting absorbed in a five-hundred page novel. But these little gems take just a couple of minutes each to read and each demands to be savoured before you go on to the next ... Read the complete review
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