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Good Bones and Simple Murders
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Good Bones and Simple Murders Hardback - 2001

by Margaret Atwood


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Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

She is the author of more than thirty books – novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children.

Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye – both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride; Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is Oryx and Crake (2003). She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England.

Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.

From the jacket flap

Margaret Atwood's "Good Bones and "Simple Murders (published originally as "Murder in the Dark) are now available together in this beautiful one-volume collector's edition. This compilation is a concentrated burst of the trademark wit and virtuosity of Atwood's bestselling novels, brilliant stories, and insightful poetry. Among the miniatures gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet a piece of her mind, the real truth about the Little Red Hen, a reincarnated bat explaining how Bram Stoker got "Dracula all wrong, and five home-economist methods of making a man. Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fictions, reconfigured fairy tales, and other diminutive masterpieces, punctuated with charming illustrations by the author.
A feast of comic entertainment, "Good Bones and Simple Murders is Atwood at her wittiest, most thoughtful, and most provoking.

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  • Title Good Bones and Simple Murders
  • Author Margaret Atwood
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 164 pages.
  • Language EN
  • Publisher McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date 2001-11-06
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780771008665

Media reviews

“[Atwood] proves she is an accomplished miniaturist.…She can pack more wallop into less space than any other writer in her weight class.”
Globe and Mail

“Ms. Atwood anatomizes happy endings, uncloaks the delights of so-called ‘women’s novels,’ and delves into the terrors of the blank page.”
New York Times Book Review

“A sparkling collection.…She never fails to entertain.”
Sunday Times (London)

About the author

Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.
She is the author of more than thirty books - novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children.
Atwood's work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Cat's Eye" - both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; "The Robber Bride"; "Alias Grace," winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and "The Blind Assassin," winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is "Oryx and Crake" (2003). She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as "The Sunday Times" Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England.
Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.
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