· 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 Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. · Intention and perception are at the heart of Margaret Atwood's wry and rueful collection Stone Mattress: Nine Tales. Her characters—women, men, beings other than human, even a mischievous hand—look back on their lives, some with wonder, others with regret, all with an inchoate understanding of how they got to the fix they are in now: old, older, or even dead/5. “Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales” is a collection of nine short stories by Margaret Atwood. The stories nearly all occur in the contemporary world, and all have many themes in common with one another, including aging, death, horror, the past, and the duality of fantasy and reality.
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales. Stone Mattress.: Margaret Atwood. Anchor Books, - Fiction - pages. 41 Reviews. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale. In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. Enjoy! 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) Illustration. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales audiobook written by Margaret Atwood. Narrated by Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, Arthur Morey, Emily Rankin, and Bernadette Dunne. Get instant access to all your favorite books. No monthly commitment. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Try Google Play Audiobooks today!
In the afterword to Stone Mattress Margaret Atwood writes that these are nine stories, but nine tales - meant to evoke the world of folk and wonder tales as told by tale tellers, removed at least slightly from the world of the mundane and the ordinary. It's no surprise then that most of these stories are quite whimsical, even when speaking. Stone Mattress.: Margaret Atwood. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, - Fiction - pages. 43 Reviews. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale. In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. “Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales” is a collection of nine short stories by Margaret Atwood. The stories nearly all occur in the contemporary world, and all have many themes in common with one another, including aging, death, horror, the past, and the duality of fantasy and reality.
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