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 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 – and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
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Dark and witty tales from the gleefully inventive Margaret Atwood … Witty verve, imaginative inventiveness and verbal sizzle vivify every page
Nine darkly humorous tales from one of today’s greatest writers
Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and dynamic literary voices in the world. Her books have sold almost 1.5 million copies in the UK alone
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ISBN
9781408857168
Publisert
2014-08-28
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
572 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
288
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