Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

by Margaret Atwood

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1408857170
  • ISBN13 9781408857175
  • Publish Date 28 August 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 288
  • Language English