Stone Mattress

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Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress (2015, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

English language

Published 2015 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-349-00654-3
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4 stars (1 review)

Collection of highly imaginative short stories, including tales of a fantasy writer guided by the voice of her late husband, a surprise held in an auctioned storage space, a woman mistaken for a vampire, and a long-ago crime avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.--

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Another plane read

4 stars

I read these stories in a binge, with the help of a long plane journey. Gripping, funny, sinister, elegantly-written... the right read at the right moment, hence the enthusiastic star-rate! The common thread that ties them together is aging + killing. Hard to pick my favourite one. I loved the title story, Stone Mattress,  and also the "Alphinland series", and "Torching the Dusties"...which already brings us to 5 tales out of 9.

Subjects

  • Fiction, short stories (single author)
  • Authors, fiction
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction