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Sep 24, 2014 · Margaret Atwood's 'Stone Mattress' Is Full Of Sharp And Jabbing Truths. Some short-story writers seem to feel the need to show as many different sides of themselves as possible in one book: tough ...
Dec 11, 2011 · Stone Mattress. By Margaret Atwood. December 11, 2011. Photograph by Olaf Otto Becker / Amador Gallery. At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone. What she had in mind was a vacation ...
Oct 24, 2014 · “Stone Mattress” is Margaret Atwood at her wicked best. The tale follows Verna, a widow up in years, who has expedited the deaths of her pervious spouses by delivering wrong doses of their ...
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 19, 2014 · In “Stone Mattress,” what is most obviously drawn from real life is the rough treatment some women receive at the hands of some men, setting the stage upon which Atwood’s characters might ...
A "stone mattress" in the titular tale of this short story collection serves as a painful reminder of past events. It is also Margaret Atwood's nickname for fascinating geological formations called stromatolites. Stromatolites (from the Greek 'stroma' = mattress/layer and 'lithos' = stone) are most easily described as living fossils.
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Sep 13, 2014 · Transcript. Stone Mattress. Nine Tales. By Margaret Atwood. Purchase. Author Margaret Atwood is prolific, beloved and extraordinarily accomplished. In addition to best-selling novels like The ...
