{"product_id":"mrs-caliban-faber-editions-wonderful-margaret-atwood","title":"Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions): 'Wonderful' (Margaret Atwood)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe amphibious cult classic: this magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman is 'seductive' (Margaret Atwood), 'genius' (Patricia Lockwood), 'perfect' (Max Porter), 'a feminist masterpiece' (Carmen Maria Machado), and 'out-weirds and out-romances anything today' (Marlon James).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research - but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular, vegetarian, sexually magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation - and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams ... \u003cb\u003eRachel Ingalls's \u003ci\u003eMrs Caliban\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e  '\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA perfect novel.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Readers Are Saying:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written'*****\u003cbr\u003e'A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for\u003ci\u003e The Shape of Water\u003c\/i\u003e.'*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.'*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Absolutely incredible. It's weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.'*****\u003cbr\u003e'One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I've ever read.  It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human ... Genius.'*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies ... Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. '*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eHooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.'*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What the hell just happened?'*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 128 pages | Published January 1970\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63172033413469,"sku":"9780571367986","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780571367986.jpg?v=1769041259","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/mrs-caliban-faber-editions-wonderful-margaret-atwood","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}