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Stone mattress : nine tales, Margaret Atwood

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Stone mattress is a short story collection which includes nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships. 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
Language
eng
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Publication
Edition
First American edition.
Extent
273 pages
Note
Originally published: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2014
Contents
  • Torching the dusties
  • Alphinland
  • Revenant
  • Dark lady
  • Lusus naturae
  • The freeze-dried groom
  • I dream of Zenia with the bright red teeth
  • The dead hand loves you
  • Stone mattress
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9780385539128
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Label
Stone mattress : nine tales
Title
Stone mattress
Title remainder
nine tales
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Margaret Atwood
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Language
eng
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Stone mattress is a short story collection which includes nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships. 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
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Title
Stone mattress
Creator
Summary
In these nine dazzlingly inventive and rewarding stories, Margaret Atwood's signature dark humour, playfulness, and deadly seriousness are in abundance.
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Dewey number
813/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR9199.3.A8
LC item number
S86 2014
Literary form
fiction
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adult
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Margaret Atwood
Stone mattress : nine tales, Margaret Atwood
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Stone mattress : nine tales, Margaret Atwood
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Originally published: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2014
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Contents
  • Torching the dusties
  • Alphinland
  • Revenant
  • Dark lady
  • Lusus naturae
  • The freeze-dried groom
  • I dream of Zenia with the bright red teeth
  • The dead hand loves you
  • Stone mattress
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22 cm.
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Edition
First American edition.
Extent
273 pages
Isbn
9780385539128
Isbn Type
(hbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2014013010
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