Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales

Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales

<b><i>From the #1 New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i></b><br><br> In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. “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. <br><br>By turns thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking, <i>Stone Mattress</i> affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.    <br><br>A Best Book of the Year: NPR, <i>BookRiot</i>