Stone Mattress comprises nine tales. “Tales”, Atwood informs us in the acknowledgements, is the most apt term for these works of fiction because “it evokes the world of the folk tale, the wonder tale and the long-ago teller of tales” Reviews:
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Hymns of the God’s Gardeners can be purchased in CD form from any of the following stores. Buy at Amazon.com – Canada Buy at Amazon.com – UK Buy at Amazon.com – USA For performance permission, please email earthlyarkmusic@gmail.com. Or mail to Earthly Ark Music, 916 Marco Place, Venice, CA. 90291,Read More …
“Balzac’s Coffee Roasters” is delighted to partner with Canadian author and bird lover Margaret Atwood in creating a Smithsonian Institute certified Bird Friendly® blend to help raise funds and awareness for Canada’s Pelee Island Bird Observatory (PIBO). One of the world’s most prolific and award-winning authors, Margaret Atwood is trulyRead More …
Now you can go deeper into the MaddAddam experience by downloading Intestinal Parasites, the first game in a series of MaddAddam Games. Become the avatar at the other end of what happens when Zeb’s nightmarish video game playing and software hacking expertise merge. DESCRIPTION As an undercover MaddAddam operative it’sRead More …
Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride is inspired by “The Robber Bridegroom,” a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess ofRead More …
Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood andRead More …
The Blind Assassin is a work of extraordinary power. It is an exploration not only of imagined lives past, present, and future, but of the art and artifice of storytelling, crossing boundaries of genre and style in a tour de force of creative daring. Reviews: