Good Bones and Simple Murders

Margaret Atwood’s <i>Good Bones</i> and <i>Simple Murders</i> (published originally as <i>Murder in the Dark</i>) are now available together in this beautiful one-volume collector’s edition. This compilation is a concentrated burst of the trademark wit and virtuosity of Atwood’s bestselling novels, brilliant stories, and insightful poetry. Among the miniatures 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 <i>Dracula</i> all wrong, and five home-economist methods of making a man. Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fictions, reconfigured fairy tales, and other diminutive masterpieces, punctuated with charming illustrations by the author.<br><br>A feast of comic entertainment, <i>Good Bones and Simple Murders</i> is Atwood at her wittiest, most thoughtful, and most provoking.