A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy Vintage Atwood creativity intelligence and humor thinkAlias GraceMargaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her collectionMoral Disorder with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning novelAlias Grace A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in xAlphinlandx the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists In xThe Freeze-Dried Bridegroomx a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise In xLusus Naturaex a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire In xTorching the Dustiesx 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 And in xStone Mattressx a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a billion-year-old stromatolite In these nine tales Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful gameThis ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
