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I have never liked short stories. They're too...um..short. How can you curl up with a hot drink and a book of these like you can with a novel? Just as you figure out who everyone is and what's going on, suddenly paf! It isn't going on any more, you finished the story, and there was some kind of unexpected twist that you're still getting over. Which means that it's a kind of betrayal to start the next story, so there you are sitting there like some kind of doofus. Without something to read.
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Atwood's a perennial favorite for me, and this collection is particularly poignant for the way that it speaks to analyzing the moment when you slowly become aware that your best opportunities may be behind you and that the door to the life you'd thought you'd live is closing. Her protagonists are thorny and a bit sad, but you wouldn't have them any other way.
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Good short stories by Atwood. Some are obviously written in the early 1990s.
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