false 133445 26 Marian has a problem. A willing member of the consumer society in which she lives, she suddenly finds herself identifying with the things being consumed. She can cope with her tidy-minded fiance, Peter, who likes shooting rabbits. She can cope with her job in market research, and the antics of her roommate. She can even cope with Duncan, a graduate student who seems to prefer laundromats to women. But not being able to eat is a different matter. Steak was the first to go. Then lamb, pork, and the rest. Next came her incapacity to face an egg. Vegetables were the final straw. But Marian has her reasons, and what happens next provides an unusual solution. Witty, subversive, hilarious, The Edible Woman is dazzling and utterly original. It is Margaret Atwood's brilliant first novel, and the book that introduced her as a consummate observer of the ironies and absurdities of modern life. 1007843 1969 The Edible Woman total:3760|5:724|4:1310|3:1249|2:389|1:88| 3760 13473 5009 261 5 6 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jun 26 08:24:51 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 08:37:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 12 06:52:02 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 06:52:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 18:08:25 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 12:24:02 -0700 2008 The Edible Woman was one of the latter for me. I started on it during ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Thu Dec 27 23:34:51 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 08 00:15:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 15:07:29 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 15:18:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 09:35:11 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 20:08:49 -0700 2009 before Oh this book is like my favorite hoodie – threadbare and falling apart but so so soft and comfy, with all those little stains and patches as sweet reminders of long-ago. Love love love love this book...


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In the first part of The Edible Woman we meet Marian, a self-reliant, educated, modern woman (for the 60s/70s), who spends her days as a manipulator of words and the consumer, in her position at a market research firm. Despite these things, Marian is also an amiable a...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Aug 04 06:49:29 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 06:53:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 11:17:34 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 21:01:37 -0800 2009
I didn't have anything to read, so Laura said I could borrow any of her books. This was the third (and last) book I borrowed from her shelves.

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Atwood thanks Virago ‘for bringing it to life again in England’, then sign...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 10 08:51:18 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 14 11:19:32 -0700 2009
Marian is our protagonist, she is happily dating an attractive man, lives in the big city, and h...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=133445