Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156572 in Books
• Published on: 1994-12
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

Hillariously Satiric...a must read for women and men alike
Atwoods collection of shot anecdotes ,prose, and takeoffs of traditional narratives creates a delicious layered candy cake, yummy from start to finnish. A light, quick read intended to be thought provoking in either its mildest form or more serious, Good Bones creates a batter of cookie dough complementing her unique sense of style and outlook on our society.

Quirky, intellectual, pleasurable read
One of the qualities of a good (correction, great) writer is to have a unique sense of vision, and be able to put it in a unique sense of style. Atwood is a great writer: her literary prowess is revealed and/or enhanced in this book. Without being pretentious, Atwood writes with simplicity (yet the implications are profound), and satiric humor, here, mostly poking fun at literary characters (e.g. Gertrude, Hamlet), the obsession with political correctness, etc. These stories could be read at two-levels: one could read for simple enjoyment, on the surface, or one could enter Good Bone's metaphoric world. Either way, there's neither right nor wrong, so why not take a risk?

classic margaret atwood! simply witchy and wonderful!
I loved this book. I rolled with laughter. IF you like biting feminist satire, she is always the best. There are things like a spoof of a 50's magazine titled "how to make a man" and a play on the children's story "the Little Red Hen". simply hilarious, thought provoking and devilish!