{"product_id":"bluebeards-egg-9780385491044","title":"Bluebeard's Egg","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy turns humorous and warm, stark and poignant, these stories f\u003c\/b\u003erom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Testaments\u003c\/i\u003e probe childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women can inflict on one another. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tenuous teenage love affair fails to survive a hurricane; a man notices the women around him becoming progressively paler and smaller; a surgeon who specializes in hearts seems oddly emotionally opaque to his wife; a middle-aged couple's waning affection rekindles at the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds. In these exceptional short stories, Margaret Atwood proves herself once again a true master of the form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eCat's Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Robber Bride\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlias Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Blind Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eMaddAddam\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy. Her 1985 classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, \u003ci\u003eThe Testaments\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published \u003ci\u003eDearly\u003c\/i\u003e, her first collection of poetry for a decade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844413362450,"sku":"9780385491044","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d8836ea3-cd3b-47e3-b1ef-37285f473635.jpg?v=1737319491","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bluebeards-egg-9780385491044","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}