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Jul 14, 2014 · 25,267 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.
The nine tales in the collection are: Alphinland - Set in Toronto, Constance's first love was Gavin, a poet. Constance created a sword-and-sorcery world called Alphinland which evolved over many years with great success. Gavin betrayed her and slept with Jorrie so Constance put him in an oak cask in Alphinland.
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.
In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game. Membership Advantages. Reviews. BookBrowse. Media Reviews. Reader Reviews. BookBrowse Review. From the simply adequate to the most superb, Stone Mattress is an admirable, off-kilter study of death, love and vulnerability - often all three.
Jun 23, 2015 · Book Description. Editorial Reviews. From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and...
Popular. Authors & Events. Add to Bookshelf. Read An Excerpt. Buy. Read An Excerpt. Stone Mattress. Nine Wicked Tales. Nine Tales. By Margaret Atwood Read by Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, Arthur Morey, Emily Rankin and Bernadette Dunne. Best Seller. Category: Short Stories | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks.
