{"product_id":"9780349006536","title":"Stone Mattress","description":"Author: Margaret Atwood\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349006536\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Sep 2015\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBY THE AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE HANDMAID'S TALE \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eALIAS GRACE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. 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. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle - and also by herself, in her award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eAlias Grace\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eStone Mattress,\u003c\/i\u003e Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStone Mattress \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Dark and witty tales from the gleefully inventive Margaret Atwood. Witty verve, imaginative inventiveness and verbal sizzle vivify every page' -\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Atwood has characters here close to death, dead already, unwittingly doomed or - in one memorable case - freeze-dried; but her own curiosity, enthusiasm and sheer storytelling panache remain alive and kicking. Anyone keen to consign literary fiction to an early grave will have to deal with her first' -\u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Atwood's prose is so sharp and sly that the effect is bracing rather than bleak' -\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46491591639198,"sku":"ADS-9780349006536","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349006536.jpg?v=1770594543","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349006536","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}