Short Story Club 26th November

Reading and discussing 'Stone Mattress' by Margaret Atwood, with Zoe

Our next online short story club discussion will be 6-7pm on 26th November, via Zoom.

We’ll be reading ‘Stone Mattress’ by Margaret Atwood, published in both the New Yorker and her collection of the same name, a tale of revenge served very cold indeed. This is a fairly long short story, but so beautifully constructed and satisfying (or is it?), it is worth taking the time to read it. Atwood seems to be a writer with a strong interest in revenge (see also her novels Cat’s Eye and Hagseed, and many others once you start to look for it), and this story is a crystalline example of that theme and the way its sharp edges gouge the human soul.

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