list price: $34.95
edition:Audiobook (CD)
category: Fiction
published: Jan 2001
ISBN:9780864923554
publisher:
Goose Lane Editions
imprint:
Between the Covers Classics
list price: $34.95
edition:Audiobook (CD)
category: Fiction
published: Jan 2001
ISBN:9780864923554
publisher:
Goose Lane Editions
imprint:
Between the Covers Classics
Description
The Edible Woman, Atwoods brilliant first novel, is clever, subversive, and utterly original. Marian, a willing member of the consumer society around her suddenly finds herself identifying with the consumed, from the rabbits her fiancee shoots to the food on her plate. When she feels too moved by the pangs of an uprooted carrot to eat it, she knews shes off the deep end. Marians deceptively simple solution marked Atwoods debut as a consummate observer of the ironies and absurdities of modern life.
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Margaret Atwood
MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her latest novel, The Testaments, is the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series. Her other works of fiction include Cat’s Eye, finalist for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. She lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson.
Dave Carley is a Toronto-based playwright who writes for theatre, radio and television. His stage plays have had more than three hundred productions across Canada, the US, and in a dozen countries around the world. They include Conservatives in Love, The Edible Woman, Walking on Water, and Writing With Our Feet, which was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award. Dave is currently playwright-in-residence at the Shaw Festival, where he is working on a drama about Danish playwright and war hero Kaj Munk. In July 2008, Dave made his directing debut at the Toronto Fringe Festival, with his play Taking Liberties.
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