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Sep 18, 2014 · Stone Mattress reveals Margaret Atwood at her most deliciously wicked and inventive. While these tales tend toward darker shadings of human experience, their subtexts are often playful, leavened by the author’s masterful wordplay. One character, for example, regrets that he studied Classics in college because, if he had gone into Design ...
Sep 16, 2014 · In "Torching the Dusties," an elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.
Stone Mattress comprises nine tales. “Tales”, Atwood informs us in the acknowledgements, is the most apt term for these works of fiction because “it evokes the world of the folk tale, the wonder tale and the long-ago teller of tales” Reviews: The Boston Globe; O, The Oprah Magazine; The New York Times; San Francisco Chronicle; NPR Book ...
Jun 23, 2015 · And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her. Stone Mattress is a collection of unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.
Mar 1, 2017 · And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously ...
I have two earlier collections of Atwood stories, and the tales in "Stone Mattress" are tighter, sharper, and saltier than those in "Good Bones and Simple Murders" and "Moral Disorder" -- and those collections are darned good. Several of the stories in "Stone Mattress" link characters across time, and others stand in their own universe.
Sep 16, 2014 · Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, MORAL DISORDER, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers ...
