{"product_id":"old-babes-in-the-wood-stories-hardcover","title":"Old Babes in the Wood: Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Testaments\u003c\/i\u003e, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels: Get your act together. You've been missing out.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003eRebecca Makkai, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Believers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMargaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories--some of which have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e--explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood's characteristic insight, wit and intellect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; \"Impatient Griselda\" explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and \"My Evil Mother\" touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love--and what comes after. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReturning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection \u003ci\u003eStone Mattress, \u003c\/i\u003e Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAtwood 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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755614437664,"sku":"9780385549073","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2ddfce3cc5c7b7fae3d6fd3d06d3f8a8.webp?v=1780063639","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/old-babes-in-the-wood-stories-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}