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Title: Good Bones, Simple Murders & the Tent
Author: Margaret Atwood
Narrator: Laurence Bouvard
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-11-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
In Good Bones and Simple Murders, Margaret Atwood displays, in condensed and crystallized form, the trademark wit and virtuosity of her best-selling novels.
Among the jewels gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet a piece of her mind, the real truth about the Little Red Hen, a reincarnated bat explaining how Bram Stoker got Dracula all wrong, and the five methods of making a man. There are parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fiction, reconfigured fairy tales, and other miniature masterpieces.
In The Tent, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative, vintage Atwoodian essays speak on a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision.
Members Reviews:
Mostly for Atwood Completionists
Iâm thrilled with the recent Margaret Atwood renaissance. Thanks to the success of The Handmaidâs Tale on Hulu, a new generation of readers is starting to dive into Atwoodâs back catalogue. This can be an intimidating process -- 16 novels, and, more confusingly, about 8 or so short fiction collections (some of these are limited release, others combined into other volumes -- this is also true of about 20 different books of poetry).
Good Bones and Simple Murders is a reprint combining two earlier volumes -- Good Bones and Murder in the Dark. Itâs primarily a collection of short-short stories that often read more like scene sketches and fragments. Itâs most similar to 2006âs The Tent, and between the two, The Tent is the better standalone volume. Good Bones is enjoyable, but not essential. It is primarily of interest to Atwood completionists -- much of the fun here is seeing what might be the genesis of some ideas that were later developed and fleshed out in lengthier, weightier works.
If youâre new to Margaret Atwood and looking for an entry point into her other books after reading The Handmaidâs Tale, Iâd look elsewhere before coming here. If you already have read a good sampling of others and are looking to expand your collection, or are curious about what it might feel like taking a peek inside of Atwoodâs notebooks, then thereâs something here for you. Thereâs nothing inside that is mandatory reading, but it is, after all, Margaret Atwood -- sheâs never written anything bad.
Poetic, frightening, and devilishly funny short works
This prose of this collection verges on poetry in its beauty, wicked humor, and terrifying insights. Truly an unsung gem!
Poetry in Prose
There is quite a mixture of ``genres'' and moods in the book. Some of them, I do not know how to name these writings, are pure satires and witty criticisms of the crook in every human being and in humanity in general, and others are like a breeze getting free from one's stream of consciousness. I felt this latter type really close to me and discovered why: because they are poems without the traditional poetic form. They can transmit a mood into the reader.
