Vintage 1996. Paperback, 281 pp
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. In this dramatic and
far-ranging collection, Margaret Atwood proves why she is a true master
of the genre.