Stone Mattress: Nine Tales Audiobook

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• “These exuberantly told tales are a tour de force of wit, style, and discernment.”

  — O Magazine

• “Witty and frequently biting…This book’s stories offer characters a chance to put their own understandings of gallantry, courage, and revenge to the test, in ways both mundane and extraordinary.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Eclectic, funny, vibrant, terrifying, beautiful, and utterly delightful.”

  — Boston Globe

• "[These] stories have the caustic wit and giddy deviance…along with the probing interiority and flinty insights of Atwood’s novels.”

  — Minneapolis Star Tribune

• "[This] 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

• “Stylish, acerbic, and wickedly funny…With wit, sympathy, and precision, Atwood draws readers into a reflective frame of mind.”

  — Miami Herald

• “Atwood, a bestselling master of fiction, delivers a stunning collection—her first since 2006’s Moral Disorder. Most of the nine stories feature women who have been wronged as girls but recover triumphantly as adults. Atwood brings her biting wit to bear on the battle of the sexes…Readers love Atwood’s women, despite, or because of, who they are and what they do…It’s clear that this grande dame is at the top of her game.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Atwood is shrewdly brilliant, gleefully mischievous, and acerbically hilarious in her first short-fiction collection since the superb Moral Disorder…Atwood has the raptor’s penetrating gaze, speed, and agility and never misses her mark.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Clever tales about writers, lovers, and other weirdos. This, explains Atwood in the acknowledgments, is a book of tales, not stories…Up to her old tricks and not dropping a card.”

  — Kirkus Reviews