109:"Loulou;" or, "The Domestic Life of the Language" – This story explores the topic of a woman being exploited by men. Loulou is a successful potter who supports financially a number of poets including her ex-husband and former lovers. A fling with her accountant leads her to realize she enjoys being a patroness of the arts, fully aware of her financial exploitation by the poets.
124:"The Sunrise" – This work explores the experiences of a female painter who progresses from painting erect penises to painting men's faces, stalking men whose faces she wishes to paint. Disillusionment comes when one of these men expresses to her his view that women are properly the objects of violence.
130:"Unearthing Suite" – Reviewer William French argues that this story can be read as autobiographical. As such, it suggests the beginnings of Atwood's writerly development occurred in her observations of the passing landscape during long car rides with her family.
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95:"Hurricane Hazel" – This story explores the pain and uncertainty of adolescence; the narrator recalls her first love affair, at age 14, and how the conventions of the time might have trapped her into an unhappy marriage.
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112:"The Salt Garden" – The essence of this selection is the story of a married couple who are amiably separated, each with a new lover.
64:, and casualties of such relationships. Four of the stories in the collection depart from this theme to instead present presumably
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115:"Uglypuss" – Joel, a 1960s-style left-wing radical, confronts the contradictions between his public and private life.
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ruminations on the narrator's childhood influences. The majority of these stories are set in downtown
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136:"In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain" – Before the 1986 US release, this story was published in
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133:"Two Stories about Emma" (which includes "The Whirlpool Rapids" and "Walking on Water")
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French, William (October 22, 1983). "The fruits of rare insight
Bluebeard's Egg".
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In this collection, Atwood explores the politics of sex and
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118:"The Sin Eater" – missing from US 1986 edition.
89:"Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother"
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278:"In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain"
252:"Old-Fashioned Virtues, Bohemian Vices"
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121:"Betty" – missing from US 1986 edition.
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250:Towers, Robert (23 November 1986).
284:(August 1986). Harper's Foundation
210:Lutwack, Leonard (February 1994).
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276:Atwood, Margaret Eleanor (1986).
167:Bluebeard's Egg and other stories
41:Bluebeard's Egg and other stories
670:Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein
861:McClelland & Stewart books
686:The Journals of Susanna Moodie
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539:Good Bones and Simple Murders
56:relationships, examining the
851:1983 short story collections
742:Morning in the Burned House
678:The Animals in That Country
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694:Procedures for Underground
92:"Spring Song of the Frogs"
785:Negotiating with the Dead
24:McClelland & Stewart
605:The Resplendent Quetzal
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579:Old Babes in the Wood
446:The Year of the Flood
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820:Film and television
793:Writing with Intent
547:The Labrador Fiasco
462:The Heart Goes Last
390:The Handmaid's Tale
214:Birds in Literature
507:Murder in the Dark
422:The Blind Assassin
256:The New York Times
197:The Globe and Mail
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646:Double Persephone
229:978-0-8130-1254-4
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104:scarlet ibis
100:Caroni Swamp
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662:Expeditions
638:collections
491:collections
414:Alias Grace
382:Bodily Harm
366:Lady Oracle
288:17 December
261:17 December
235:17 December
164:(1983) and
845:Categories
734:Interlunar
626:Freeforall
531:Good Bones
170:(1986) at
147:References
454:MaddAddam
398:Cat's Eye
358:Surfacing
333:Works by
62:betrayals
777:Survival
750:The Door
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607:" (1977)
600:" (1977)
555:The Tent
470:Hag-Seed
282:Harper's
172:WorldCat
76:Contents
58:emotions
48:Synopsis
801:Payback
70:Toronto
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