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PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAAD9cBBw_MStone Mattress: Nine TalesAuthored by Margaret AtwoodNarrated by Margaret Atwood, Rob Del...
Aug 28, 2014 · 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. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.
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O ld age is the theme at the heart of Margaret Atwood’s wise and witty 55th book, but as the characters in this compelling collection of nine tales inch ever closer to the grave, they journey ...
978-0-7710-0680-7. Stone Mattress is a 2014 short fiction collection by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. [1] Atwood describes the pieces in the collection as "tales" rather than short stories, as they draw from the mythical and fantastical aspects associated with fables and fairy tales, rather than from conventional literary realism. [1]
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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 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 ...
