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The Edible Woman Book
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Foyles
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments and Alias Grace'Clara', she said, 'do you think I'm normal?''I'd say you're almost abnormally normal, if you know what I mean.' Marian is determinedly ordinary, waiting to get married. She likes her work, her broody flatmate and her sober fiancé Peter. All goes well at first, but Marian has reckoned without an inner self that wants something more, that calmly sabotages her careful plans, her stable routine - and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach . . .Margaret Atwood's first novel is both a scathingly funny satire of consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism.'Atwood has the magic of turning the particular and the parochial into the universal' The Times'Written with a brilliant angry energy' Observer'Margaret Atwood not only has a sense of humour, she has wit and style in abundance . . . a joy to read' Good Housekeeping'A witty, elegant, generous and patient writer' Punch
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Play
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine and her digestion. Marriage a la mode Marian discovers is something she literally can't stomach ...The Edible Woman is a funny engaging novel about emotional cannibalism men and women and desire to be consumed. 'Margaret Atwood not only has a sense of humour she has wit and style in abundance ...a joy to read' Good Housekeeping 'Written with a brilliant angry energy' Observer 'A witty elegant generous and patient writer' Punch
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BookDepository
The Edible Woman : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9780860681298 : : 01 Oct 2009 : She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach...
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Blackwell
Funny, sharp, witty, clever' - The Times Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable...
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ASDA
'Funny sharp witty clever' - The Times
- 0860681297
- 9780860681298
- Margaret Atwood
- 14 April 1994
- Virago Press Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 281
- New Ed
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