Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions): 'Wonderful' (Margaret Atwood)

Review A tender, erotic, singular novel; a feminist masterpiece. -- Carmen Maria Machado Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension ... One of my favorites. -- Patricia Lockwood Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today. A tale so curiously right, so romantically obverse, that it creates its own terrible, brilliant reality. -- Sarah Hall Kind of weird and cool. -- Irvine Welsh Genius ... Its absurdity throws everything else into relief - the hackneyed tale of suburban boredom is refreshed - and the result is like Revolutionary Road written by Franz Kafka ... A exquisite hors d'oeuvre, which leaves your mouth watering for more. -- John Self ― The Times A miracle ... A perfect novel. ― New Yorker [Ingalls'] performances are immensely skillful, reminiscent of the best film thrillers. -- Ursula K. Le Guin A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar. -- Irenosen Okojie Mrs. Caliban is inscribed upon my soul, a very weird book in every possible great meaning of the word 'weird.' -- Elizabeth McCracken Reissued this year with impassioned praise from fellow authors such as Marlon James, Patricia Lockwood and Max Porter, Mrs Caliban (Faber) by Rachel Ingalls is a work of true verve and imagination. Along with her suburban housewife and lab-tested reptilian lover, Ingalls deftly, wittily and rather incredibly liberates readers from the awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness are beautiful and right. -- Sarah Hall ― Observer Books of the Year Fresher than most things written yesterday .... Every one of its 125 pages is perfect, original, and arresting. Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting. ― Harpers I'm obsessed with Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls's perfect, short, bizarre, heartfelt, insane 1982 novel. ― Vogue A collision of fairy tale, pulp, and the dredgings of the unconscious ... Fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness ... Her masterpiece. ― New Yorker Imagine if Muriel Spark wrote science fiction and you'll get close to what this book feels like: a triumph. Product Description The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman ... 'Disturbing but seductive ... Wonderful.' Margaret Atwood 'Perfect.' Max Porter 'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' Marlon James 'A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.' Carmen Maria Machado ''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.' Patricia Lockwood 'Kind of weird and cool. ' Irvine Welsh 'Genius ... Like Revolutionary Road written by Franz Kafka ... Exquisite.' The Times 'Incredibly liberates readers from the awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness are beautiful.' Sarah Hall 'A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.' Irenosen Okojie (foreword) Dorothy 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 ... Rachel Ingalls's Mrs Calibanis a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago 'A miracle . A perfect novel.' New Yorker 'Every one of its 125 pages is perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.' Harper's What Readers Are Saying: 'Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written'***** 'A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.'***** 'Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.