La primera y aclamada colección de cuentos de Margaret Atwood, un libro de factura exquisita que retrata personajes y ambientes con incomparable agudeza.
Publicada en 1985, Chicas bailarinas es la aclamada primera colección de relatos de Margaret Atwood. Sus catorce piezas combinan numerosas técnicas y perspectivas para capturar los movimientos imprevisibles de personajes inmersos en la vida cotidiana contemporánea, pero no por ello menos fascinantes. Quien se acerque a este volumen descubrirá no solo los destinos de amas de casa, estudiantes, periodistas, granjeros, ornitólogos, exesposas y amantes adolescentes, sino también que cada voz tiene su tono, y que el talento de la autora se niega a las soluciones fáciles: nada es manido en Atwood, pero todo es tan probable que casi parece real.

Con brillantes destellos de fantasía, humor y momentos de violencia inesperada, los cuentos revelan las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y suscitan el terror y la risa, la compasión y el reconocimiento, al tiempo que recalcan el lugar de preeminencia que ocupa la escritora en la literatura contemporánea.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A splendid collection of short stories from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Handmaid’s Tale—the inspiration behind the award-winning Hulu original series.
Margaret Atwood brings her singular voice to this unforgettable volume of short stories filled with rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror, laughter, compassion and recognition—and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today.

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, part of the Massey Lecture series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. 

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La crítica ha dicho:
«Los cuentos de Margaret Atwood son feroces parábolas sobre los incordios de la vida urbana y las políticas de las relaciones humanas. Una colección extraordinaria». The Sunday Times
«Esta colección de relatos demuestra una aguda comprensión del mundo y un gran amor por el lenguaje». Evening Standard