Bluebeard's Egg

With the publication of the best-selling The Handmaid''s Tale in 1986, Margaret Atwood''s place in North American letters was reconfirmed. Poet, short story writer, and novelist, she was acclaimed "one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century."*

Of Atwood''s first collection of short fiction, Dancing Girls, Anne Tyler wro...