· Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (SHORT STORIES) By Margaret Atwood. Bloomsbury, UK. ISBN www.doorway.ru: Mahvesh Murad. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales, by Margaret Atwood, Bloomsbury, RRP£/Nan Talese, RRP$, pages. Ursula K Le Guin is author of ‘The Unreal and the Real’ (Gollancz)Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Overview. Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales is a collection of nine short stories from Canadian author Margaret Atwood. While Atwood has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, she is probably best known for her dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood often tackles the power of the written word in her work.
In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, 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. I was recently lucky enough to get my hands on Margaret Atwood's newest collection of short stories, Stone Mattress: Nine www.doorway.ru is one of those contemporary authors who is so revered and. By Matt Bell. Sept. 19, "Stone Mattress," Margaret Atwood's first collection since "Moral Disorder" in , begins with three linked stories about women who have been romantically.
4/5: I don't tend to read short story collections but I needed to read one for the Read Harder challenge and this was only $ on kobo so it worked out well. I really enjoyed this book and all of the stories were delightfully dark. Margaret Atwood is of course so so talented and I read all of the stories except for the last one (it was a bit longer) in one sitting since I was always dying to. An obsession with aging and dying unites much of Stone Mattress, and Atwood, more than 40 books into her career, has arrived here preoccupied not just with the churn of generations but also with legacy and reputation, with getting straight the story of one's life—the tale about the tale—and with surviving what happens once no one is paying any attention anymore Witty and frequently biting, Stone Mattress is keen to the ways in which we choose, all our lives, to love and to hurt—and. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales, by Margaret Atwood, Bloomsbury, RRP£/Nan Talese, RRP$, pages. Ursula K Le Guin is author of ‘The Unreal and the Real’ (Gollancz).
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