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 stromatolite.
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. *Praise
for Stone Mattress 'Dark and witty tales from the gleefully inventive
Margaret Atwood.
Stone Mattress : Nine Wicked Tales - Margaret Atwood
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