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epub | 9.02 MB | English| Isbn:9780385539135 | Author: Margaret Atwood | Year: 2014
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Quote:From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments-a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds-and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.Category:Fiction, Literature, Awards, World Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Fiction, Short Story Collections, Canadian Fiction - 21st century, Canadian Short Stories, Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction of 2014
"Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In "Lusus Naturae," a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her.
Stone Mattress is a collection of unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.