Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780349006536 (0349006539)
ASIN: 0349006539
Publish date: 2015-09-24
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Edition language: English
There are nine short stories in this collection. I liked that the first three were somehow connected -- it gives a rare glimpse into an author's train of thoughts in (a larger) plot development, and how different characters' perspectives can come together to make a full-length novel.
In this one, Margaret Atwood deals with elderly topics of concern, such as assisted living, funerals, and falling. The first three stories were my favorite and served as a kind of trilogy, if you will. They are about the aging author of a fantasy series named Constance, and her early love affair ...
I loved "The Dead Hand Loves You" way more than I should've. I dig the old horror, just watched The Thing That Wouldn't Die last night. The tropes are amazing - the wide eyes, the unbridled lust! This collection is not a collection of short stories, it's a collection of smirks. Atwood is very smirky...
Margaret Atwood has always been on my radar, although due to my complete and utter laziness I hadn’t really explored her work all that much. I did eventually get to The Handmaid’s Tale a few months ago, and I was pretty impressed with it. And then I found out that she wrote one of my favorite short ...
Title: Stone Mattress Who Wrote It? Margaret Atwood, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and Maddadam) and a host of other novels, short story and poetry collections (though, really, did I need to introduce her?). More at At...
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