{"product_id":"9780771006814","title":"Stone Mattress","description":"Margaret Atwood returns to short fiction with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel,\u003ci\u003e Alias Grace\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in “\u003ci\u003eAlphinland\u003c\/i\u003e,” the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn “\u003ci\u003eThe Freeze-Dried Bridegroom\u003c\/i\u003e,” a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn “\u003ci\u003eLusus Naturae\u003c\/i\u003e,” a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn “\u003ci\u003eTorching the Dusties\u003c\/i\u003e,” 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd in “\u003ci\u003eStone Mattress\u003c\/i\u003e,” a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.","brand":"Margaret Atwood (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":49979266793829,"sku":"9780771006814","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ff8b47bc-e0a5-4030-8ea6-2b0f5e87f7d4.jpg?v=1759417352","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9780771006814","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}