by Margaret Atwood · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349006536
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«Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales» is the collection of nine short stories by Margaret Atwood, published by Little, Brown Book Group Limited in paperback.
It brings together nine stories between the fantastic and the macabre: a widowed writer guided by the voice of her late husband, an elderly woman who sees small figures due to Charles Bonnet syndrome, and a woman with a genetic anomaly that makes her look like a vampire. Atwood blends satire, black humour and gothic tale.
This edition was published on 24 September 2015; the work originally appeared in 2014. The volume consists of 320 pages and the text is in English.
For readers of gothic tales and black humour, and for admirers of Margaret Atwood; the work draws on the tradition of Stevenson, du Maurier and Conan Doyle.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
