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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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Jul 14, 2014 · Stone Mattress is a collection of nine short stories by Margaret Atwood. However, as the author relates in her Acknowledgements, calling a piece of short fiction a "tale" removes it from the mundane and "evokes the world of the folk tale, the wonder tale, and the long-ago teller of tales." And this work was certainly that.
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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.
Jun 23, 2015 · Amazon.com: Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales: 9780804173506: Atwood, Margaret: Books ... Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry ...
Sep 19, 2014 · STONE MATTRESS. Nine Tales. By Margaret Atwood. 273 pp. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $25.95. Matt Bell’s novel “In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods” was released in ...