Stone mattress : nine tales
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-2014
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A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet's 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 stromatalite. In 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.
Main title:
Stone mattress : nine tales / Margaret Atwood.
Author:
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2014.London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Collation:
273 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781408857168 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.54SSTFICTIONF
Local class:
F
Language:
English
BRN:
1642751