Two stories in Atwood's collection Dancing Girls and Other Stories (1977) offer subject matter akin to that found in Lady Oracle. "The Man from Mars" involves a delicate mother and grossly obese daughter who must negotiate their steadily worsening incompatibility. The fantastic seems to rescue the teen-age Christine from the boredom of her life by bringing her way a selfprofessed Martian who professes his devotion to her. In time, though, fantasy becomes nightmare and Christine, like Joan, enters the besieged.....
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