''Dancing Girls & Other Stories'' is a collection of
short stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...
by Canadian author
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...
, originally published in 1977 by
McClelland & Stewart
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...
, Toronto. It was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction.
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.
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
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"
* "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
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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".
References
1977 short story collections
Short story collections by Margaret Atwood
McClelland & Stewart books
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