Stone mattress : nine tales / Margaret Atwood.
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TextPublisher: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2014]Edition: First American editionDescription: 273 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0385539126 (alk. paper)
- 9780385539128 (alk. paper)
- Short stories. Selections
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace .
Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder , with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace . A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists. In "The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom," a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise. In "Lusus Naturae," a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In "Torching the Dusties," an elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
Alphinland -- Revenant -- Dark lady -- Lusus naturae -- The freeze-dried groom -- I dream of Zenia with the bright red teeth -- The dead hand loves you -- Stone mattress -- Torching the dusties.
The award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents a collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire.