Stone Mattress : Nine Tales

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 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.Author: Atwood, Margaret,author
Contributors: Atwood, Margaret,author
Binding: hardcover
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date:
Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis
Edition: 1
Published/Release Date: 28 Aug 2014
Format: Hardback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Author/Director/Artist: Margaret Atwood
Dimension (cm): 236x160x28 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 26x242x165 mm
Item Weight (g): 568
Package Weight (g): 520