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Marian has a problem. A willing member of the consumer society in which she lives, she suddenly finds herself identifying with the things being consumed. She can cope with her tidy-minded fiancé, Peter, who likes shooting rabbits. She can cope with her job in market research, and the antics of her roommate. She can even cope with Duncan, a graduate student who seems to prefer laundromats to women. But not being able to eat is a different matter. Steak was the first to go. Then lamb, pork, and the rest. Next came her incapacity to face an egg. Vegetables were the final straw. But Marian has her reasons, and what happens next provides an unusual solution. Witty, subversive, hilarious, The Edible Woman is dazzling and utterly original. It is Margaret Atwood’s brilliant first novel, and the book that introduced her as a consummate observer of the ironies and absurdities of modern life.
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"Chock-full of startling images, superbly and classically crafted...Kept me in stitches."
-Saturday Night
"Extraordinarily witty, and full or ironic observation."
-The Toronto Star
"Atwood has the magic of turning the particular and the parochial into the universal."
-The Times (London)
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“Articulate and sophisticated.…Extraordinarily witty, and full of ironic observation.…A tour de force.…”
– Toronto Star
“[Atwood is] one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century.”
– Vogue
“Remarkable.… The Edible Woman assumes the force of a banal dream that has turned, without the dreamer quite noticing, into a nightmare.…[It] conceals the kick of a perfume bottle converted into a Molotov cocktail.”
– Time
“Delightful – spare, precise, mordantly witty.…Exquisitely written.”
– Journal of Canadian Fiction
“[ The Edible Woman] is chock-full of startling images, superbly and classically crafted.…”
– Saturday Night
“Few writers are able to combine wit and humour.…Margaret Atwood is a poet and novelist who seems to be able to do anything she wants.”
– Newsweek
“A pleasure.”
– Kirkus Reviews
“Funny, sharp, witty, clever.”
– The Times (U.K.)
“Marked by a keen eye for evocative details which cohere into vivid incidents.”
– Canadian Forum
“[Atwood is] a subtle and penetrating observer of relationships between men and women.”
– Sunday Times (U.K.)
“Reflections on marriage, guilt and the relationship between the sexes – classic Atwood territory.”
– The Guardian (U.K.)
“[Atwood] knows exactly what she is doing with every phrase.”
– Vancouver Sun
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- PublisherNew Canadian Library
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0771091931
- ISBN 13 9780771091933
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages281
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