She has also written many books of poetry, literary criticism and novels for children. Margaret Atwood is the author of ten novels, including Life Before Man (1979) The Handmaid's Tale (1985) The Robber Bride (1993) Alias Grace (1996) and The Blind Assassin (2000). The novel was published in 1969 and was startlingly prescient if anything, its take on consumerism and the gender wars rings even louder today, over thirty years after the novel's publication. The Edible Woman is a black comedy, set in Toronto in the mid-Sixties. Michael Messer (Duncan) in The Festival of New Works production, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her home life is also spiraling out of control - her roommate Ainsley has decided to become pregnant, their landlady is on the warpath, and then there's the strange young man she just kissed at the laundromat… But slowly her world starts slipping out of focus and, instead of consuming, Marian begins identifying with the things consumed. Marian has a good job and a handsome lawyer-fiancé, Peter. With wit, affection and dollops of irony, Atwood traces the journey of Marian, a young woman who has embraced the consumer society.
The Edible Woman was Margaret Atwood's first novel and it was an auspicious debut for the internationally renowned writer. Marked by blazingly surreal humor and a colorful cast of eccentric characters, The Edible Woman is a groundbreaking work of fiction.Marian's life seems to be perfect: a good job, interesting friends and a handsome fiancé. 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. Suddenly empathizing with the steak in a restaurant, Marian finds she is unable to eat meat.
But after Peter proposes marriage, things take a strange turn. 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 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.
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