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The Edible Woman

Paperback • 1969 • English

The Edible Woman

By Margaret Atwood

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About the book

The novel that put the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments on the literary map. The Booker Prize winner's first novel is both a scathingly funny satire of consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism. Marian McAlpin is an “abnormally normal” young woman, according to her friends. A recent university graduate, she crafts consumer surveys for a market research firm, maintains an uneasy truce between her flighty roommate and their prudish landlady, and goe...Show more

Fiction: general and literary
Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction
Narrative theme: Social issues

Book details

ISBN

9780385491068

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

1969

Language

English

Original title

The Edible Woman

Format

Paperback

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