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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales. Margaret Atwood, 2014. Knopf Doubleday. 288 pp. ISBN-13: 978038553912#. Summary. A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 ...
BookBrowse. From the simply adequate to the most superb, Stone Mattress is an admirable, off-kilter study of death, love and vulnerability - often all three. Within these pages we are reminded of our own rapidly approaching mortality and, against all odds, see our desire to be loved in the strangest of tales... continued. Full Review (507 words)
Sep 16, 2014 · Books. Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales. Margaret Atwood. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 16, 2014 - Fiction - 288 pages. From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive ...
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 ...
Sep 12, 2014 · Look at these tales, then, as eight icily refreshing arsenic Popsicles followed by a baked Alaska laced with anthrax, all served with impeccable style and aplomb. Enjoy! Stone Mattress: Nine Tales ...
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 · A Novel. Margaret Atwood. 978-0-385-49044-3. $19.00 US. Paperback. Vintage. Oct 13, 1997. From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.
