The New Leader, March 9th, 1987
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
By Margaret AtwoodHoughton Mifflin. 281 pp. $16.95.
MARGARET ATWOOD's deadpan humorlightens the troubles that darken her stories. The dark is the color of the times, turned bleak by the brittle and bristling relations between women and men. Yet Atwood's women, gutsy, smart, ruthless as laughter, manage to make the best of their lives. Radicals mostly when it comes to the truth--even as it shifts palpably, without deference to their dignity--these women take their independence with them whenever they go out, risking discovery and inviting the transformation...
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