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And in “Stone Mattress,” a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. 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 · “Revenant” read by Mark ...
Oct 24, 2014 · Stone Mattress. By Margaret Atwood, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 273 pages, $25.95. The contemporary mythologist is an endangered literary species in today’s landscape of post-modernist, realist ...
Stone Mattress. Buy Now. 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”.
Jun 9, 2018 · Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress (2014), a collection of nine tales, builds on Hag-Seed (2007), her re-working of Shakespeare’s tale The Tempest, to explore aging through the tropes of fantasy, myth and folklore. She’s particularly concerned with sexual karma (aging people reconnecting with past lovers); entrapment; with how we ‘write ...
May 14, 2024 · Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. Her notable books include The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), and The Testaments (2019). Learn more about Atwood’s life and work.
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. He is referring to an impending visit from an infatuated graduate student ...
Sep 11, 2014 · At seventy-five, Ms. Atwood does so in a distinctly “time-is-winding-down” frame. In her new book of short stories, Stone Mattress, Ms. Atwood seems to be taking stock, settling scores ...
