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Stone mattress : nine tales / Margaret Atwood

Stone mattress : nine tales / Margaret Atwood
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ISBN 9781408857168
Shelf Location F/ATW
Author Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Title Stone mattress : : nine tales / / Margaret Atwood
Place of publication London : Bloomsbury , 2014
Collation 273 pages : 24 cm. ;
Contents Alphinland -- Revenant -- Dark lady -- Lesus naturae -- The freeze-dried groom -- I dream of Zenia with the bright red teeth -- The dead hand loves you -- Stone mattress -- Torching the dusties.
Abstract/Summary 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.
Subject Authors -- Fiction
Betrayal -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Short story fiction
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