{"product_id":"9780571367986","title":"Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions) : 'Wonderful' (Margaret Atwood)","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Ingalls, Rachel \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/08\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 128 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780571367986,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe amphibious cult classic: this magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman is 'seductive' (Margaret Atwood), 'genius' (Patricia Lockwood), 'perfect' (Max Porter), 'a feminist masterpiece' (Carmen Maria Machado), and 'out-weirds and out-romances anything today' (Marlon James).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A perfect novel.' New YorkerWhat Readers Are Saying:'Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written'*****'A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.'*****'Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.'*****'Absolutely incredible. It's weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.'*****'One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I've ever read.  It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human ... Genius.'*****'Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies ... Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. '*****'Hooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night.'*****'What the hell just happened?'*****\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57135801860469,"sku":"9780571367986","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780571367986.jpg?v=1778142592","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780571367986","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}