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Jul 14, 2014 · In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle - and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace.
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Sep 16, 2014 · An Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2014: “Stop trying to pimp me out to all these groupies,” a famous author and infamous cad utters in “Revenant,” one of three cleverly interconnected tales that begin Margaret Atwood’s superbly sardonic Stone Mattress.
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 · 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...
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.
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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”.
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In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game. List of Stories and Narrators: · “Alphinland” and “Torching the Dusties” read by Lorna Raver
