Dancing Girls (short story collection)
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Dancing Girls & Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1977 by McClelland & Stewart,[1] Toronto. It was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction.
First ed. cover | |
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
| Publication date | 1977 (first edition) |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 245 p. |
| OCLC | 229377541 |
The collection's fourteen stories feature ordinary people, including a farmer, a birdwatcher, an author, a mother and a travel agent, and their inevitably biased perceptions of the world.[2]
Stories
Editions based on the original 1977 McClelland & Stewart edition contain the following fourteen stories:
- "The War in the Bathroom"
- "The Man from Mars"
- "Polarities"
- "Under Glass"
- "The Grave of the Famous Poet"
- "Rape Fantasies"
- "Hair Jewellery"
- "When it Happens"
- "A Travel Piece"
- "The Resplendent Quetzal"
- "Training"
- "Lives of the Poets"
- "Dancing Girls"
- "Giving Birth"
Editions based on the revised Simon & Schuster 1982 edition contain the following fourteen stories:
- "The Man from Mars"
- "Betty"
- "Polarities"
- "Under Glass"
- "The Grave of the Famous Poet"
- "Hair Jewellery"
- "When it Happens"
- "A Travel Piece"
- "The Resplendent Quetzal"
- "Training"
- "Lives of the Poets"
- "Dancing Girls"
- "The Sin Eater"
- "Giving Birth"
This effectively swaps "The War in the Bathroom" and "Rape Fantasies" for "Betty" and "The Sin Eater".
