Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: She can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds -- everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she has been eaten. Marian really ought to feel consumed by passion. But she just feels...consumed. A brilliant and powerful work rich in irony and metaphor, The Edible Woman is an unforgettable masterpiece of contemporary literary fiction. "Chock-full of startling images, superbly and classically crafted...kept me ...
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Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: She can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds -- everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she has been eaten. Marian really ought to feel consumed by passion. But she just feels...consumed. A brilliant and powerful work rich in irony and metaphor, The Edible Woman is an unforgettable masterpiece of contemporary literary fiction. "Chock-full of startling images, superbly and classically crafted...kept me in stitches half the time". -- Saturday Night "As delightful a novel as has come along in ages; the kind of book you hate to put down and usually don't". -- Herald Magazine "There is an incredible imagination working behind this novel...keen vision and music...wit and humor". -- the Silhouette (Hamilton, Ontario)
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Good. Book is in good or acceptable condition; no loose pages, spine is acceptable. May have creases on the cover May have markings inside book, or on endpages.
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VG. Not ex-lib. Softcover in illustrated violet and pale green wraps, small 8vo. 1st printing thus. 310ppp. + note on author. VG. Very mild rubbing to wraps along lower edge, spine ends and tips of corners with central panel clean and strongly colored. Binding strong and square; moderate uniform toning to pages on somewhat pulpy stock, clean and unmarked; stronger toning to inner side of wraps and facing pages.
This earliest work of Margaret Atwood's hard to describe. At times lacking the polish of her more recent works, while at others brilliantly skewering the social norms of the 1960's, the overall effect is terribly earnest. Granted, I am also reading this in 2010, and I was not around prior to the women's lib movement, so I feel like there is some sense of context that I may never be able to fully appreciate, no matter what I know about the era, and this context is imperative to "The Edible Woman."
All in all, the book is savagely witty, but it also made me wish I could have read it in 1969.
