Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Murder in the Dark
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Initial publish date
- Nov 1997
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Humorous, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780771034640
- Publish Date
- Nov 1997
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
First published in 1983, Murder in the Dark is Margaret Atwood's seventh work of fiction or her tenth book of poetry, depending on how you slice it. These short prose forms range from fictionalized autobiography through prose-poetry, mini-romance, and mini–science fiction.
A feast of comic entertainment, Murder in the Dark is Atwood at her wittiest, most thoughtful, and most provoking.
About the authors
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.
Editorial Reviews
"These vignettes glow with the usual Atwood magic of intelligence...an exhilarating performance, full of sharp pleasures for the mind." British Book News
"Shrewd, funny, intelligent, honest, ironic." Scotland on Sunday
"Direct, unpretentious, humorous." The Sunday Times
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Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021
On Cats
An Anthology
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Gentleman Death / Perpetual Motion
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2021 Women Who Rock Our World Wall Calendar
Gideon’s Bible
A Father & Son Discuss God, the Bible and Life
Los testamentos / The Testaments
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Selected Poems 1983–2020
The Virtues of Disillusionment
The Stray and the Strangers
Reaching Mithymna
Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
Locations of Grief
An Emotional Geography
Beyond Forgetting
Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy
The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep
The Waking Comes Late
The Waking Comes Late special hardcover edition
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