By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, the stories in Bluebeard's Egg glow with childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women inflict on each other.
Record details
ISBN:9780771008085
ISBN:9780771008627 (pbk.)
ISBN:0771008082
ISBN:0771008627 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print 285 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher:Toronto :McClelland and Stewart,1983.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Significant moments in the life of my mother -- Hurricane Hazel -- Loulou; or, the domestic life of the language -- Uglypuss -- Betty -- Bluebeard's egg -- Spring song of the frogs -- Scarlet Ibis -- The salt garden -- The sin eater -- The sunrise -- Unearthing suite.
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