Overview
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments--a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds--and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.
"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. Stone Mattress is a collection of unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780804173506
- ISBN-10: 0804173508
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Publish Date: June 2015
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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