![]() disconcerting, faintly ominous, and moving with the greatest of ease from the expected to the unexpected. In 1970, Kirkus described it as “a first novel of genuine style applied to the most ordinary circumstances. A brilliant and powerful work, rich in irony and metaphor, The Edible Woman is an unforgettable masterpiece by a true master of contemporary literature. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds-everything! Worse yet, while Marian ought to feel consumed with passion, she really just feels. In case you haven’t read Atwood’s debut, here’s how her publisher describes it:Įver since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can’t eat. At the time The Edible Woman was written in 1965 food, eating and weight issues had yet attracted wide attention as feminist concerns. ![]() The adaptation will be executive produced by Francine Zuckerman of Z Films and Karen Shaw of Quarterlife Crisis Productions. ![]() Today, Variety reported that the rights to Margaret Atwood’s brilliant 1969 debut novel, The Edible Woman, have been picked up by Entertainment One. The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood’s debut novel, is a slightly topsy-turvy inverted fairytale, with shades of Mad Men in its focus on consumer culture and the stifling social conventions of the mid-Sixties. You may think we’ve reached Atwood market-saturation, but turns out Atwood market-saturation just doesn’t exist. ![]()
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