Description
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Hardcover
by MargaretAtwood
- Publisher : NanA.Talese (2014), Edition: 2nd
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 2014
- ISBN-10 : ?1408857162
- ISBN-13 : 9781408857168
- Weight : 0.572
- Dimensions : 24.2×2.6×16.3 cm
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by MargaretAtwood (2014)
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Average Rating:
3.9 rating based on 26,635 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1408857162
ISBN-13: 9781408857168
Goodreads: 22429563
Author(s):
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 8/28/2014
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet’s syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly-formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. And a crime committed long-ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion year old stromatalite.
In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle – and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
3.9 rating based on 26,635 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1408857162
ISBN-13: 9781408857168
Goodreads: 22429563
Author(s):
Published: 8/28/2014
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet’s syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly-formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. And a crime committed long-ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion year old stromatalite.
In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle – and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
