Bibliograph

Stone mattress, nine tales, Margaret Atwood

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Stone mattress, nine tales, Margaret Atwood

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Stone mattress

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Oclc number

890029754

Responsibility statement

Margaret Atwood

Sub title

nine tales

Summary

Stone mattress is a short story collection which includes nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships. 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

Target audience

adult

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