Bluebeards Egg

by Margaret Atwood

In this collection, Atwood explores the politics of sex and heterosexual relationships, examining the emotions, betrayals, and casualties of such relationships. Four of the stories in the collection depart from this theme to instead present presumably autobiographic ruminations on the narrator's childhood influences. The majority of these stories are set in downtown Toronto.{{Cite news

| last = French | first = William | title = The fruits of rare insight Bluebeard's Egg | newspaper = The Globe and Mail | pages = E. 14 | date = October 22, 1983 | url = }}