Margaret Atwood. (2014). Stone Mattress: Nine Tales. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Margaret Atwood. 2014. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales. Books on Tape.

Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales. Books on Tape, 2014.

Margaret Atwood. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2014.

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A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.
Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists. In "The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom," a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise. In "Lusus Naturae," a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In "Torching the Dusties," 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. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
List of Stories and Narrators:
·         “Alphinland” and  “Torching the Dusties” read by Lorna Raver
·         “Revenant” read by Mark Bramhall
·         "Dark Lady” and  “The Dead Hand Loves You” read by Arthur Morey
·         “Lusus Naturae” read by Emily Rankin
·         “The Freeze-Dried Groom” read by Rob Delaney
·         “I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth” read by Bernadette Dunne
·         “Stone Mattress” read by Margaret Atwood

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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
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     "Witty and frequently biting ... this book's stories offer characters a chance to put their own understandings of gallantry, courage and revenge to the test, in ways both mundane and extraordinary."

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   • source: Ursula K Le Guin, Financial Times
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     "In Stone Mattress [Atwood is] having a high old time dancing over the dark swamps of Horror on the wings of satirical wit ... Look at these tales as eight icily refreshing arsenic Popsicles followed by a baked Alaska laced with anthrax, all served with impeccable style and aplomb. Enjoy!"
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   • source: O Magazine
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     "These exuberantly told tales are a tour de force of wit, style, and discernment."
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   • source: Boston Globe
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     "Eclectic, funny, vibrant, terrifying, beautiful, and utterly delightful."
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   • source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
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     "[These] stories have the caustic wit and giddy deviance ... along with the probing interiority and flinty insights of Atwood's novels."
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   • source: Miami Herald
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     "Stylish, acerbic and wickedly funny ... With wit, sympathy and precision, Atwood draws readers into a reflective frame of mind."
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   • source: Chicago Tribune
   • content: "[This] collection is surprisingly unsettling, gripping and at once laugh-out-loud hilarious. It attains its laudable goal: Myths last over time, and the stories in this book have that very quality. They are timeless, memorable and quite simply fun."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly, starred review
   • content: "Stunning ... Atwood brings her biting wit to bear on the battle of the sexes."
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   • source: Booklist, starred review
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     "Shrewdly brilliant, gleefully mischievous, and acerbically hilarious ... Atwood has the raptor's penetrating gaze, speed, and agility and never misses her mark."
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    • source: Kirkus Reviews

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      "Clever tales about writers and lovers ... Atwood is a playful, sharp-edged, and politically alert author."
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    • content: Nine provocative tales are divided among seven utterly capable voices. The result is an often startling, sometimes humorous, and always satisfying exploration of the human condition. Lorna Raver is clearly energized and engaged with the characters, and her low-pitched voice lends itself well to the stories that open and close the collection, each featuring an older woman who is struggling to balance reality and imagination. Also performing double duty, Arthur Morey is deliberate with pace and pronunciation as he navigates the murky intersection of biography and storytelling. Though she's tasked with the shortest story, Emily Rankin's memorable performance belies the innocence of a character whose genetic condition is mistaken for vampirism. The highlight is Margaret Atwood's reading of the titular story. Her understated delivery and low tones are a chilling combination in this pointed tale of revenge. A.S. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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      Starred review from July 28, 2014
      Atwood, a bestselling master of fiction, delivers a stunning collection—her first since 2006's Moral Disorder. Most of the nine stories feature women who have been wronged as girls but recover triumphantly as adults. Atwood brings her biting wit to bear on the battle of the sexes. The first three stories in the book—"Alphinland," "Revenant," and "Dark Lady"—are linked by a pretentious poet and his girlfriends, who best him professionally and personally as he ages into an impotent, disgruntled old man with a wife 30 years his junior: "He probably has more horns on his head—as the bard would say—than a hundred headed snail." Corpses are found, as in "The Freeze-Dried Groom"—or not found, as in the title story, set on an Arctic cruise, in which a woman takes her revenge on the high school "Mr. Hearthrob, Mr. Senior Football Star, Mr. Astounding Catch... Mr. Shit" of 50 years before. Readers love Atwood's women, despite, or because of, who they are and what they do. Add in her wild imagination—women conversing with dead husbands; genetic missteps that produce a girl with yellow eyes, pink teeth, and "long, dark chest hair"; and costumed "little people" who appear to an elderly nursing home resident—and it's clear that this grande dame is at the top of her game.

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