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Stone Mattress is a 2014 short fiction collection by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. 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.
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
- 2014
Sep 18, 2014 · September 18, 2014. A brilliant collection that playfully reveals the darker shadings of human experience. Both new readers of Margaret Atwood and those who know her earlier fiction will welcome her return to the short story genre with her first collection since Moral Disorder in 2006.
- Roberta Rubenstein
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Jul 14, 2014 · 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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Sep 24, 2014 · Margaret Atwood's 'Stone Mattress' Is Full Of Sharp And Jabbing Truths. September 24, 20145:43 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. By. Meg Wolitzer. 3-Minute Listen. Playlist. Stone...
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”.
Nov 10, 2014 · A murderess goes on an Arctic cruise and finds her long-ago high school prom date on the same ship. He destroyed her life 50 years before. Now she has the chance to destroy his. That’s the title story in Margaret Atwood’s new collection of short fiction, “Stone Mattress.”