{"product_id":"9780594682387","title":"Stone Mattress: Nine Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the #1 New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In “Lusus Naturae,” a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eStone Mattress\u003c\/i\u003e affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Best Book of the Year: NPR, \u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027001590000,"sku":"9780594682387","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780594682387_p0.jpg?v=1763723071","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780594682387","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}