Stone Mattress - by Margaret Atwood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>From the #1 New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i></b> <p/> In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. "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. By turns thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking, <i>Stone Mattress</i> affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds--and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Eclectic, funny, vibrant, terrifying, beautiful, and utterly delightful." --<i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/>"A tour de force of wit, style, and discernment." --<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i> <p/>"Astonishing. . . . Powerful. . . . I loved these strange, sharp and wild stories." --Meg Wolitzer, NPR <p/>"Pure, simple and stunning. . . . Endearing, subtle, quite brilliant." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle <p/></i>"Powerful. . . . Witty and frequently biting, <i>Stone Mattress</i> is keen to the ways in which we choose, all our lives, to love and to hurt--and in Atwood's world these two actions are always choices, creating consequences for which we will one day be held to account." --<i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i><br>"Danc[es] over the dark swamps of Horror on the wings of satirical wit. . . . Look at these tales . . . as eight icily refreshing arsenic Popsicles followed by a baked Alaska laced with anthrax, all served with impeccable style and aplomb. Enjoy!" --Ursula K. Le Guin, <i>Financial Times<br></i><br>"The collection is surprisingly unsettling, gripping and at once laugh-out-loud hilarious. It attains its laudable goal: Myths last over time, and the stories in this book have that very quality. They are timeless, memorable and quite simply fun." --<i>Chicago Tribune<br></i><br>"Powerful. . . . Extraordinary. . . . Realism and ridiculousness, play and deadly seriousness, are held in fine balance throughout." --<i>The Guardian</i> (London) <p/></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Margaret Atwood, </b> whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include <i>Cat's Eye</i>, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; <i>Alias Grace</i>, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; <i>The Blind Assassin</i>, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; <i>Oryx and Crake</i>, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; <i>The Year of the Flood</i>, <i>MaddAddam</i>; and <i>Hag-Seed</i>. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.
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