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Stone Mattress : Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood 1st Printing Like New
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Personalize
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Type
- Short Stories
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Archival Cover
- Original Language
- English
- Personalized
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Signed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- ISBN
- 9780385539128
- Book Title
- Stone Mattress : Nine Tales
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 17.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Information
A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace . Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder , with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace . A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists. In "The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom," a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise. In "Lusus Naturae," a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In "Torching the Dusties," 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. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385539126
ISBN-13
9780385539128
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178715091
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stone Mattress : Nine Tales
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr9199.3.A8s86 2014
Reviews
"[These] stories have the caustic wit and giddy deviance ... along with the probing interiority and flinty insights of Atwood's novels."-- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Stylish, acerbic and wickedly funny ... With wit, sympathy and precision, Atwood draws readers into a reflective frame of mind."-- Miami Herald "Stunning ... Atwood brings her biting wit to bear on the battle of the sexes."-- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Shrewdly brilliant, gleefully mischievous, and acerbically hilarious ... Atwood has the raptor's penetrating gaze, speed, and agility and never misses her mark."-- Booklist , starred review "Clever tales about writers and lovers ... Atwood is a playful, sharp-edged, and politically alert author."-- Kirkus Reviews, "Witty and frequently biting ... this book's stories offer characters a chance to put their own understandings of gallantry, courage and revenge to the test, in ways both mundane and extraordinary." -- The New York Times Book Review "In Stone Mattress [Atwood is] having a high old time dancing 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, Financial Times "These exuberantly told tales are a tour de force of wit, style, and discernment." -- O Magazine "Eclectic, funny, vibrant, terrifying, beautiful, and utterly delightful." -- Boston Globe "[These] stories have the caustic wit and giddy deviance ... along with the probing interiority and flinty insights of Atwood's novels." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Stylish, acerbic and wickedly funny ... With wit, sympathy and precision, Atwood draws readers into a reflective frame of mind." -- Miami Herald "[This] 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." -- Chicago Tribune "Stunning ... Atwood brings her biting wit to bear on the battle of the sexes." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Shrewdly brilliant, gleefully mischievous, and acerbically hilarious ... Atwood has the raptor's penetrating gaze, speed, and agility and never misses her mark." -- Booklist , starred review "Clever tales about writers and lovers ... Atwood is a playful, sharp-edged, and politically alert author." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Witty and frequently biting ... this book's stories offer characters a chance to put their own understandings of gallantry, courage and revenge to the test, in ways both mundane and extraordinary." -- The New York Times Book Review "In Stone Mattress [Atwood is] having a high old time dancing 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, Financial Times "These exuberantly told tales are a tour de force of wit, style, and discernment." -- O Magazine "Eclectic, funny, vibrant, terrifying, beautiful, and utterly delightful." -- Boston Globe "[These] stories have the caustic wit and giddy deviance ... along with the probing interiority and flinty insights of Atwood's novels." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Stylish, acerbic and wickedly funny ... With wit, sympathy and precision, Atwood draws readers into a reflective frame of mind." -- Miami Herald "Stunning ... Atwood brings her biting wit to bear on the battle of the sexes." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Shrewdly brilliant, gleefully mischievous, and acerbically hilarious ... Atwood has the raptor's penetrating gaze, speed, and agility and never misses her mark." -- Booklist , starred review "Clever tales about writers and lovers ... Atwood is a playful, sharp-edged, and politically alert author." -- Kirkus Reviews, "STUNNING...Atwood brings her biting wit to bear on the battle of the sexes."-- Publishers Weekly , starred review "SHREWDLY BRILLIANT, GLEEFULLY MISCHIEVOUS, AND ACERBICALLY HILARIOUS...Atwood has the raptor's penetrating gaze, speed, and agility and never misses her mark."-- Booklist , starred review "Clever tales about writers and lovers...ATWOOD IS A PLAYFUL, SHARP-EDGED, AND POLITICALLY ALERT AUTHOR."-- Kirkus Reviews, "Witty and frequently biting ... this book's stories offer characters a chance to put their own understandings of gallantry, courage and revenge to the test, in ways both mundane and extraordinary." -- The New York Times Book Review "In Stone Mattress [Atwood is] having a high old time dancing 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, Financial Times "These exuberantly told tales are a tour de force of wit, style, and discernment." -- O Magazine "Eclectic, funny, vibrant, terrifying, beautiful, and utterly delightful." -- Boston Globe "[These] stories have the caustic wit and giddy deviance ... along with the probing interiority and flinty insights of Atwood's novels." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Stylish, acerbic and wickedly funny ... With wit, sympathy and precision, Atwood draws readers into a reflective frame of mind." -- Miami Herald "[This] 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." -- Chicago Tribune "Stunning ... Atwood brings her biting wit to bear on the battle of the sexes." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Shrewdly brilliant, gleefully mischievous, and acerbically hilarious ... Atwood has the raptor's penetrating gaze, speed, and agility and never misses her mark." -- Booklist , starred review "Clever tales about writers and lovers ... Atwood is a playful, sharp-edged, and politically alert author." -- Kirkus Reviews
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
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Lccn
2014-013010
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
23
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