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Sep 24, 2014 · Stone mattress: a fossilized cushion, formed by layer upon layer of blue-green algae building up into a mound or dome. It was this very same blue-green algae...
Atwood illuminates heavy themes with a lightness of touch, giving insight not only into the nature of stone but the trials and tribulations of flesh and blood. Stone Mattress...
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.
Dec 11, 2011 · Fiction. 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...
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Oct 24, 2014 · Books. Margaret Atwood’s ‘Stone Mattress’: Myths for our times. Marta Iwanek, Toronto Star via Getty Images. By Sam Weller. PUBLISHED: October 24, 2014 at 3:00 a.m. | UPDATED: May 9,...
Beta. Summary and Study Guide. Overview. Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales is a 2014 collection of nine short stories from Canadian author Margaret Atwood. While Atwood has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, she is probably best known for her dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale.
Oct 10, 2014 · T he nine stories in Margaret Atwood's new collection should, she explains in an afterword, properly be considered "tales": removed "from the realm of mundane works and days", evoking "the world ...
