{"product_id":"mrs-caliban","title":"Mrs Caliban","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs heard on BBC Radio 4''s ''A Good Read: the amphibious cult classic: a magical \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003etale of a suburban housewife''s affair with a frogman ...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Disturbing but seductive ... Wonderful.'' \u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Perfect.'' \u003cb\u003eMax Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.'' \u003cb\u003eMarlon James\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.'' \u003cb\u003eCarmen Maria Machado\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.'' \u003cb\u003ePatricia Lockwood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Kind of weird and cool. '' \u003cb\u003eIrvine Welsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e''Genius ... Like \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Road\u003c\/i\u003e written by Franz Kafka ... Exquisite.'' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Incredibly liberates readers from the awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness are beautiful.''\u003cb\u003e Sarah Hall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.'' \u003cb\u003eIrenosen Okojie\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 ... \u003cb\u003eRachel Ingalls’s \u003ci\u003eMrs Caliban\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ''A miracle\u003c\/b\u003e … \u003cb\u003eA perfect novel.’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Every one of its 125 pages is perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.'' \u003c\/b\u003eHarper''s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eWhat Readers Are Saying:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written''*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for\u003ci\u003e The Shape of Water\u003c\/i\u003e.''*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.''*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Absolutely incredible. It''s weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.''*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I’ve ever read. It delves into gender politics. It takes a long, hard look at mental health. It addresses female sexual freedom and agency. It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human ... Genius.''*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies that examines sad realities with hilarious verve ... Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. ''*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eHooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003cb\u003eBeautiful ... Will stay with me.''*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''What the hell just happened?''*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57560908235134,"sku":"NW9780571367986","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571367986.jpg?v=1782108198","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/mrs-caliban","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}