Atwood is able to subtly weave a sledgehammer of a story, here are nine tales with themes ranging from revenge to resignation, from grace to greed and all connected by the wheel of time and change. If you haven't read any of her previous works, this is the perfect place to start; a story might link in to another, one might be very short, another dipping a toe into a fantasy realm. You will undoubtedly have your favourite stories and characters, and that is part of the charm, the wit, the clever competent writing. This is also the perfect place to start if short stories are unchartered territory, as you will most definitely not feel short changed by this wonderful collection.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. 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. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatalite.
Stone Mattress Nine Tales features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Shorter Reads, General Fiction, Fiction, Fiction: special features
Stone Mattress Nine Tales is available in Hardback
Stone Mattress Nine Tales was written by Margaret Atwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Stone Mattress Nine Tales has 273 pages
£18.00
