{"product_id":"mrs-caliban-faber-editions-wonderful-margaret-atwood","title":"Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions): 'Wonderful' (Margaret Atwood)","description":"Review\n\nA tender, erotic, singular novel; a feminist masterpiece. -- Carmen Maria Machado\n\nGenius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension ... One of my favorites. -- Patricia Lockwood\n\nStill outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.\n\nA tale so curiously right, so romantically obverse, that it creates its own terrible, brilliant reality. -- Sarah Hall\n\nKind of weird and cool. -- Irvine Welsh\n\nGenius ... 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\n\nA miracle ... A perfect novel. ― New Yorker\n\n[Ingalls'] performances are immensely skillful, reminiscent of the best film thrillers. -- Ursula K. Le Guin\n\nA devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar. -- Irenosen Okojie\n\nMrs. Caliban is inscribed upon my soul, a very weird book in every possible great meaning of the word 'weird.' -- Elizabeth McCracken\n\nReissued 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\n\nFresher 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\n\nI'm obsessed with Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls's perfect, short, bizarre, heartfelt, insane 1982 novel. ― Vogue\n\nA collision of fairy tale, pulp, and the dredgings of the unconscious ... Fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness ... Her masterpiece. ― New Yorker\n\nImagine if Muriel Spark wrote science fiction and you'll get close to what this book feels like: a triumph.\n\nProduct Description\n\nThe amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman ...\n'Disturbing but seductive ... Wonderful.' Margaret Atwood\n'Perfect.' Max Porter\n'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' Marlon James\n'A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.' Carmen Maria Machado\n''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.' Patricia Lockwood\n'Kind of weird and cool. ' Irvine Welsh\n'Genius ... Like Revolutionary Road written by Franz Kafka ... Exquisite.' The Times\n'Incredibly liberates readers from the awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness are beautiful.' Sarah Hall\n'A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.' Irenosen Okojie (foreword)\n\nDorothy 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\n\n'A miracle . A perfect novel.' New Yorker\n'Every one of its 125 pages is perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.' Harper's\n\nWhat Readers Are Saying:\n'Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written'*****\n\n'A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.'*****\n\n'Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40595641663573,"sku":"9780571367986N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/bf1314cb-9d62-415a-8a83-4211dc990a63.jpg?v=1682420193","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/mrs-caliban-faber-editions-wonderful-margaret-atwood","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}