Dancing Girls (short story collection)
# Dancing Girls (short story collection)

Dancing Girls & Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1977 by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto. It was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction.

The collection's fourteen stories feature ordinary people, including a farmer, a birdwatcher, an author, a mother and a travel agent, and their inevitably biased perceptions of the world.

## Stories

Editions based on the original 1977 McClelland & Stewart edition contain the following fourteen stories:

* "The War in the Bathroom"
* "The Man from Mars"
* "Polarities"
* "Under Glass"
* "The Grave of the Famous Poet"
* "Rape Fantasies"
* "Hair Jewellery"
* "When it Happens"
* "A Travel Piece"
* "The Resplendent Quetzal"
* "Training"
* "Lives of the Poets"
* "Dancing Girls"
* "Giving Birth"

Editions based on the revised Simon & Schuster 1982 edition contain the following fourteen stories:

* "The Man from Mars"
* "Betty"
* "Polarities"
* "Under Glass"
* "The Grave of the Famous Poet"
* "Hair Jewellery"
* "When it Happens"
* "A Travel Piece"
* "The Resplendent Quetzal"
* "Training"
* "Lives of the Poets"
* "Dancing Girls"
* "The Sin Eater"
* "Giving Birth"

This effectively swaps "The War in the Bathroom" and "Rape Fantasies" for "Betty" and "The Sin Eater".

