Stone mattress
Subtitle: nine tales
By: Margaret Atwood
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: W F Howes Ltd
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781471282966
Subjects: Authors; Fiction; Betrayal; Man-woman relationships
Description: 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.
Notes: Published by W.F. Howes under the Clipper imprint.

Standard print edition originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 2014.