Good bones and simple murders
by Margaret Atwood
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In this collection of short works that defy easy categorization, Margaret Atwood displays the trademark wit and virtuosity of her bestselling novels, brilliant stories, and insightful poetry. 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 the five home-economist methods of making a man.
There are parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fictions, reconfigured fairy tales, and other diminutive masterpieces - punctuated with charming illustrations by the author.
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Yoi honetachi + kantan na satsujin = Good bones and simple murders
2005, Hokuseid*o Shoten
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Good bones and simple murders
1994, Nan A. Talese, Doubleday
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A collection of short works mostly taken from two earlier works, Good Bones and Murder in the Dark. It contains short stories, poetry, science fiction, fairy tales and parables accompanied by Atwood’s fanciful illustrations. Many of the pieces are reworking's of classical works such as Hamlet's mother setting him straight on some things and a bat who explains how Stoker got Dracula all wrong.
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