Stone Mattress: A Story
โ Scribed by Margaret Atwood
- Book ID
- 111182341
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Series
- A Vintage Short
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101974025
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A Vintage Shorts โShort Story Monthโ Selection
The author of such towering novels as The Handmaidโs Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood proves her imaginative prowess dazzles just as vividly in her short fiction. โStone Mattress,โ from her collection of the same name is witty, grotesque, and utterly hilariousโan exemplar of Atwoodโs tremendous capacity for capturing our darkest impulses on the page.
Verna, aging widow, boards a cruise ship bound for the Arctic in search of her next husband. The last four had suffered regrettable tragedies and left Verna wickedly wealthy in their wake. But, instead of finding another wealthy suitor, Verna finds unwitting Bob, the first man to have ever wronged her. Single, reasonably near his grave, ordinary, and attracted to her like all the othersโBob is all-too-easy prey for Vernaโs merciless revenge.
An ebook short.
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