{"id":5485,"date":"2014-09-16T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385539128"},"modified":"2014-09-16T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T05:30:00","slug":"stone-mattress-by-margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/16\/stone-mattress-by-margaret-atwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stone Mattress<\/a> Nine Tales
Written by<\/b> Margaret Atwood<\/a><\/h3>\n

Hardcover<\/b>, 288 pages | Nan A. Talese | Fiction – Short Stories (single author); Fiction – Literary; Fiction – Humorous | $25.95<\/b> | September 16, 2014 | 978-0-385-53912-8 (0-385-53912-6)<\/p>\n

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder<\/i>, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace<\/i>. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists. In “The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom,” a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise. In “Lusus Naturae,” a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In “Torching the Dusties,” 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. And in “Stone Mattress,” a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.<\/p>\n


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<\/a><\/p>\n

Stone Mattress<\/a> Nine Tales
Written by<\/b> Margaret Atwood<\/a><\/h3>\n

Hardcover<\/b>, 288 pages | Nan A. Talese | Fiction – Short Stories (single author); Fiction – Literary; Fiction – Humorous | $25.95<\/b> | September 16, 2014 | 978-0-385-53912-8 (0-385-53912-6)<\/p>\n

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder<\/i>, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace<\/i>. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists. In “The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom,” a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise. In “Lusus Naturae,” a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In “Torching the Dusties,” 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. And in “Stone Mattress,” a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.<\/p>\n

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