01444nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801000007608200150017610000230019124500390021426000410025336500080029452008880030265000170119065000100120765000120121770000210122920250102150622.0250102b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781408857168  a: Brijwase Book Distributorsb: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhic; BW/00091d: 21/12/2024  a741.59 ATW  a Atwood, Margaret.  aStone Mattressc/ Margaret Atwood   aPRENTICEb - HALL OF INDIAc , 1992.  b629  aNine darkly humorous tales from one of today's greatest writers. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. 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. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. And a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billionyear-old stromatalite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle and also by herself, in her award­ winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.  aFantasy Book  aNovel  aFiction  aMargaret Atwood