RaveThe Chicago TribuneThese are tales steeped in primal themes: the hero's journey, revenge, betrayal, gallantry, the outcast, the tragic. In the acknowledgments section of her new short story collection, Stone Mattress, Canadian Margaret Atwood illuminates her book's mythic intent...book opens with a trio of captivating, linked stories about a group of artists and writers and their romantic imbroglios ... The stories in Stone Mattress are sharp and contemporary, intelligent and darkly comic, yet awash in the wisdom of a nearly 75-year-old writer still very much in possession of her A-game ...Myths last over time, and the stories in this book have that very quality. They are timeless, memorable and quite simply fun.
