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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 ...
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 ...
978-0-7710-0680-7. 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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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 ...
O ld age is the theme at the heart of Margaret Atwood’s wise and witty 55th book, but as the characters in this compelling collection of nine tales inch ever closer to the grave, they journey ...
Sep 13, 2014 · Transcript. Stone Mattress. Nine Tales. By Margaret Atwood. Purchase. Author Margaret Atwood is prolific, beloved and extraordinarily accomplished. In addition to best-selling novels like The ...
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.
