And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her. By turns thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking, Stone Mattress affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses/5(). In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by /5(). Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Atwood, Margaret and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru
The nine stories in Margaret Atwood's "Stone Mattress" are exquisitely written, wildly imaginative, sometimes grotesque but always enthralling. Having reached a certain age, Atwood writes with wit and insight about characters who have reached old age with many, many issues from their youths still unresolved. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.". Stone Mattress.: Margaret Atwood. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, - Fiction - pages. 43 Reviews. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale. In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.
“Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales” is a collection of nine short stories by Margaret Atwood. The stories nearly all occur in the contemporary world, and all have many themes in common with one another, including aging, death, horror, the past, and the duality of fantasy and reality. Intention and perception are at the heart of Margaret Atwood's wry and rueful collection Stone Mattress: Nine Tales. Her characters—women, men, beings other than human, even a mischievous hand—look back on their lives, some with wonder, others with regret, all with an inchoate understanding of how they got to the fix they are in now: old, older, or even dead. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood: Some fans will remember well the titular story in Atwood’s forthcoming collection, which was published in the New Yorker in December of , and which begins, in Atwood’s typical-wonderful droll fashion: “At the outset, Verna had not intended to kill anyone.” With this collection.
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