Marked by blazingly surreal humor and a colorful cast of eccentric characters, The Edible Woman is a groundbreaking work of fiction. 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. 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. It is through food and eating that Atwood. Read 2,054 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Margaret Atwoods The Edible Woman is about women and their relationships to men, to society, and to food and eating. Suddenly empathizing with the steak in a restaurant, Marian finds she is unable to eat meat. Read 2,054 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. But after Peter proposes marriage, things take a strange turn. Margaret Atwoods internationally-renowned first novel has been brilliantly adapted for stage by playwright Dave Carley. 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. Marian McAlpin is an “abnormally normal” young woman, according to her friends. The Booker Prize winners first novel is both a. 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. The novel that put the bestselling author of The Handmaids Tale and The Testaments on the literary map.
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