{"product_id":"the-edible-woman-isbn-9780385491068","title":"The Edible Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe novel that put the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Testaments\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 goes to parties with her solidly dependable boyfriend, Peter. But after Peter proposes marriage, things take a strange turn. Suddenly empathizing with the steak in a restaurant, Marian finds she is unable to eat meat. As the days go by, her feeling of solidarity extends to other categories of food, until there is almost nothing left that she can bring herself to consume. Those around her fail to notice Marian’s growing alienation—until it culminates in an act of resistance that is as startling as it is imaginative. Marked by blazingly surreal humor and a colorful cast of eccentric characters, \u003ci\u003eThe Edible Woman \u003c\/i\u003eis a groundbreaking work of fiction.“Disconcerting, faintly ominous, and moving with the greatest of ease from the expected to the unexpected. . . . Waywardly funny. . . . A distinct pleasure to read.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Atwood has the magic of turning the particular and the parochial into the universal.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Chock-full of startling images, superbly and classically crafted. . . . Kept me in stitches half the time.\" —\u003ci\u003eSaturday Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret   Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty books of fiction,   poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s   Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The   Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel,   The Testaments, which   was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she   published Dearly, her   first collection of poetry for a decade.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for   Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of   the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton   Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the   Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a   cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in   Toronto, Canada.By the Booker Prize-winning Author of The Blind Assassin","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304605536485,"sku":"NP9780385491068","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385491068.jpg?v=1767739132","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-edible-woman-isbn-9780385491068","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}