“[Atwood's stories] combine superb control and selectivity with an almost rambunctious vitality. . . . A stunning collection. . . . With a deft turn of phrase, a poet's delicate pounce upon just the right word, she manages to convey the complexities and contradictions of ordinary life.” —Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review

“Margaret Atwood is a deeply serious writer who is also wildly funny.” —Chatelaine

“Deft, sardonic: quintessential Atwood.” —Globe and Mail

“Margaret Atwood’s stories are fierce parables about the horror of city life and the power politics of relationships. . . . A remarkable collection.” —Sunday Times (UK)

"Sheer wizardry, a rich fusion of the ordinary experience made brilliant by symbol, image, and allusion." —Los Angeles Times

"Margaret Atwood renders visual, aural, and tactile events in such crisp, surprising language that her images crackle off the page." —Washington Post

"Atwood has done it again. . . . Dancing Girls is a must." —The Gazette (Montreal)

"An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal, rum relations between women and men." —The Times (UK)

"The mind revealed in this collection of short stories is acutely perceptive, in love with language and capable of seeing significant connections between apparently disparate circumstances." —The London Standard (UK)

"If anyone has better insight into women and their central problem—men—than Margaret Atwood, and can voice them with as much wit, impact and grace, then they haven't started writing yet." —Daily Mail (UK)

"The experience of reading these stories is exhilarating; they remain in your mind." —Alice Adams, author of Superior Women and Beautiful Girl

"Everything Margaret Atwood says in this book is overwhelmingly true. . . . You're sure to recognize yourself somewhere." —Spectator

"A brilliant and witty writer." —Cosmopolitan

"Illumines areas of the human condition few writers have witnessed with such intelligence and sympathy." —The Boston Globe

"Tough poet, clever critic, brilliant novelist, feminist, nationalist, our chief literary heroine. . . . A superb writer." —Toronto Star