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Mrs Caliban
- Faber Editions
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman called Larry ...
'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' Marlon James
''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.' Patricia Lockwood
'So curiously right, so romantically obverse, that it creates its own terrible, brilliant reality.' Sarah Hall
'A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.' Carmen Maria Machado
'A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.' Irenosen Okojie (foreword)
Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs, mourning the death of her young son and a recent miscarriage. 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 and excellent at housework, Larry the frogman is a revelation - and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams . . . Rachel Ingalls's Mrs Caliban is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale - as magical today as it was four decades ago
'A miracle . A perfect novel.' New Yorker
'Every one of its 125 pages is perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.' Harper's
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- preethalakshmi
- 08-10-23
Free flowing, gripping and impactful
Loved the Novel- for just 125 pages it an allegory of patriarchy , assumed responsibility that women carry in their minds and bodies suppressing their desires while seek validation and acceptance from the society. It a compelling tale of fantasy, romance, sadness combined with surrealism, social satire and outside in view of human nature. Loved the characterization of Larry who has so many layers and the two contrasting women who friendship sways as the tale takes unexpected twists towards the end. Time well spent
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