Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales -- Margaret Atwood

<b>From the bestselling author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> and <i>The Testaments--</i>a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds--and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses. <br></b><br>"Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In "Lusus Naturae," a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her. <p/><i>Stone Mattress</i> is a collection of unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Margaret Atwood<br><b>Publisher:</b> Anchor Books<br><b>Published:</b> 06/23/2015<br><b>Pages:</b> 304<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.50lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780804173506<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Margaret Atwood, </b> whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include <i>Cat's Eye</i>, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; <i>Alias Grace</i>, which won the Giller Prize in