Stone Mattress - Nine Wicked Tales
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| Verlag | Penguin Random House |
| Auflage | 2015 |
| Seiten | 304 |
| Format | 14,2 x 20,3 x 1,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 236 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0804173508 |
| EAN | 9780804173506 |
| Bestell-Nr | 80417350EA |
The award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents a collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire.
Klappentext:
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments 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.
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.
Stone Mattress is a collection of unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.
Rezension:
Eclectic, funny, vibrant, terrifying, beautiful, and utterly delightful. The Boston Globe
A tour de force of wit, style, and discernment. O, The Oprah Magazine
Astonishing. . . . Powerful. . . . I loved these strange, sharp and wild stories. Meg Wolitzer, NPR
Pure, simple and stunning. . . . Endearing, subtle, quite brilliant. San Francisco Chronicle
Powerful. . . . Witty and frequently biting, Stone Mattress is keen to the ways in which we choose, all our lives, to love and to hurt and in Atwood s world these two actions are always choices, creating consequences for which we will one day be held to account. The New York Times Book Review
Danc[es] 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! Ursula K. Le Guin, Financial Times The 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. Chicago Tribune
Powerful. . . . Extraordinary. . . . Realism and ridiculousness, play and deadly seriousness, are held in fine balance throughout. The Guardian (London)