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Jul 14, 2014 · 3.89. 25,289 ratings2,985 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Fiction (2014) A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband.
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The nine tales in the collection are: Alphinland - Set in Toronto, Constance's first love was Gavin, a poet. Constance created a sword-and-sorcery world called Alphinland which evolved over many years with great success. Gavin betrayed her and slept with Jorrie so Constance put him in an oak cask in Alphinland.
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
- 2014
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Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales is a 2014 collection of nine short stories from Canadian author Margaret Atwood. While Atwood has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, she is probably best known for her dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood often tackles the power of the written word in her work.
Sep 18, 2014 · Spoiler alert: There is no happy-ever-after ending. 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.
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In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game. Membership Advantages. Reviews. BookBrowse. Media Reviews. Reader Reviews. BookBrowse Review. From the simply adequate to the most superb, Stone Mattress is an admirable, off-kilter study of death, love and vulnerability - often all three.
Sep 19, 2014 · By Matt Bell. Sept. 19, 2014. “Stone Mattress,” Margaret Atwood’s first collection since “Moral Disorder” in 2006, begins with three linked stories about women who have been romantically...
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 ...
