{"product_id":"mrs-caliban-faber-editions-genius-patricia-lockwood","title":"Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions): 'Wonderful' (Margaret Atwood) [2021] paperback","description":"The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman ...\u003cbr\u003e'Genius ... Like Revolutionary Road written by Franz Kafka ... Exquisite.' The Times\u003cbr\u003e'Ingalls 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]\u003cbr\u003e'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' Marlon James\u003cbr\u003e'A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.' Carmen Maria Machado\u003cbr\u003e''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.' Patricia Lockwood\u003cbr\u003e'A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.' Irenosen Okojie (foreword)\u003cbr\u003e'Perfect.' Max Porter\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 ... Rachel Ingalls's Mrs Caliban is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A miracle . A perfect novel.' New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e'Every one of its 125 pages is perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.' Harper's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Readers Are Saying:\u003cbr\u003e'Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written'*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.'*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.'*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Absolutely incredible. It's weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.'*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I've ever read. It delves into gender politics. It takes a long, hard look at mental health. It addresses female sexual freedom and agency. It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human ... Genius.'*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies that examines sad realities with hilarious verve ... Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. '*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night ... Beautiful ... Will stay with me.'*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What the hell just happened?'*****","brand":"Ingalls, Rachel \u0026 Okojie, Irenosen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44278502719778,"sku":"9780571367986","price":11.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/ingalls-rachel-okojie-irenosen-mrs-caliban-faber-editions-genius-patricia-lockwood-9780571367986-40293325242658.jpg?v=1673210142","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/mrs-caliban-faber-editions-genius-patricia-lockwood","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}