Una colección de relatos cortos donde los personajes parecen hacer equilibrios sobre el abismo. Atwood plantea historias en el preciso instante antes de la catástrofe sea ésta la infidelidad, la ruptura de la pareja, el brote psicótico, la muerte o incluso un parto.

A fave. I fell in love with Atwood’s writing in Handmaid’s Tale, but was lukewarm about Blind Assassin. These short stories reminded me how witty and powerful she is.

Standouts ~

Beautifully observed

Ho preso questo libro per la descrizione in copertina. Le storie sono diverse e alcune veramente carine! La Atwood (è il primo libro che leggo suo) ha un modo di scrivere molto aperto e elegante.
Non fatevi ingannare dal titolo!

A so-so collection of short fiction that took me forever to slog through.

The collection is dark, depressing and rather abstract in some stories. The main characters include a woman who appears to be suffering from some sort of schizophrenia and dementia, a woman being stalked by a foreign student, several couples in relationships that range from unhappy to adulterous, a counselor at a camp for children with disabilities, and a racist who insists on seeing new tenets in her building in their "native costumes."

Out of the 14 stories in the collection there were only 3 that I really liked.

As a reader of romance, I found Rape Fantasies to be rather interesting. The main character of the story has rape fantasies where she fends off the attacker by some stroke of luck - the would be rapist gets his zipper stuck and starts to cry that he's never been able to get anything right or some other such ridiculous thing. I thought it was a clever take on the idea

The other story I liked was A Travel Piece which is about a travel writer that ends up in a plane crash which leaves them stranded in life boats on the ocean for several days. It has a bit of a Lord of the Flies vibe too it.

іноді здається, що в цих оповідань нема ні початку, ні кінця, просто вирвані з життя моменти, які мають свою передісторію і після яких ще купа всього відбуватиметься, - розповіді без розв'язок. фейбер пише схожу коротку прозу, теж лишає читача без можливості розпружитися; як і в нього, в атвуд нічого не закінчується, є тільки проміжні зупинки, і вони не обов'язково наприкінці оповідання.
символічний - і дуже потужний - текс про "давати життя" наприкінці збірки, мабуть, один із найсильніших тут.

Had to buy a second hand edition from the US that included ‘Rape Fantasies’, which is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

14 eriskummalist ja paeluvat (vb isegi eksistentsiaalset) lugu 14 tavalisest inimesest, peaasjalikult naisest (sest nagu järelsõnaski öeldud on Atwoodi meeskarakterid pigem udused). Enamasti lood algavad justkui kusagilt elude/sündmuste keskelt ja nii mõngi lõpeb siis, kui keerad lehte ja arvad, et “see lugu läheb küll edasi!” Eesti keel, millesse raamat pandud on ja kujundid, millest lause lause järel raamat nii rikas on, tegid sellest mõjusa lugemiselamuse.