"Among the miniatures gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet a piece of her mind, the real truth about the Little Red Hen, a reincarnated bat explaining how Bram Stoker got Dracula all wrong, and five home-economist methods of making a man. Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fictions, reconfigured fairy tales, and other diminutive masterpieces, punctuated with charming illustrations by the author."--
Record details
ISBN:9780771008665
ISBN:077100866X
Physical Description:print viii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Publisher:Toronto :McClelland & stewart,2001.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Murder in the Dark -- Bad News -- Unpopular Gals -- The Little Red Hen Tells All -- Getrude Talks Back -- There Was Once -- Women's Novels -- The Boys' Own Annual, 1911 -- Stump Hunting -- Making a Man -- Men at Sea -- Simmering -- Happy Ending -- Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women -- The Victory Burlesk -- She -- The Female Body -- Cold-blooded -- Liking Men -- In Love with Raymond Chandler -- Simple Murders -- Iconography -- Alien Territory -- My Life As a Bat -- Hardball -- Bread -- Poppies: Three Variations -- Homelanding -- The Page -- An Angel -- Third Handed -- Death Scenes -- We Want It All -- Dance of the Lepers -- Good Bones.